Beats

The Beats were a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition. ...more

On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Howl and Other Poems
Big Sur
Junky
The Subterraneans
Desolation Angels
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
A Coney Island of the Mind
Lonesome Traveler
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
Queer
Visions of Cody
Tristessa
On the Road by Jack KerouacLooking for Kerouac by Mercedes Webb-Pullman
Who loves Kerouac ?
2 books — 2 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger1984 by George OrwellThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
So You Want To Be a Teenage Dissident
47 books — 26 voters

Minor Characters by Joyce JohnsonRecollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane di PrimaOff the Road by Carolyn CassadyHow I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie JonesMemoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima
Women Beats
18 books — 8 voters
Janet Does Everything by Van Evan FullerPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
106 books — 15 voters

Sympathy For The Drummer by Mike    EdisonCharlie Watts' Favorite Drummers - Chet Falzerano Drum Refere... by Chet FalzeranoBorn to Drum by Tony BarrellPostcards from the Boys by Ringo StarrThis Wheel's on Fire by Levon Helm
"Give the drummer some!"
70 books — 3 voters
Funk Is Its Own Reward by Lloyd BradleyThe Breakbeat Bible Book/Online Audio - Drum Book for Beginne... by Mike  AdamoFunk Guitar by Ross BoltonThe Funkmasters -- The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections 1960... by Chuck Silverman
how to groove
4 books — 3 voters

“ [I]t is said, “Patience is a virtue.” But I know, instead, Patience is a vulture, Made up of time, Picking at my spine. Pick, tick... Pick, tick... Pick, tick... Die. ”
― Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

“ [W]e ourselves are the skeletons who scare us, faux grownups who could never care for us, left alone to watch in terror as all life is extinguished again. ”
― Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

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