The Beats


On the Road
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Howl and Other Poems
The Dharma Bums
Junky
Big Sur
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Desolation Angels
The Subterraneans
Mexico City Blues
Queer
Lonesome Traveler
Maggie Cassidy
Visions of Cody
Tristessa
Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around, pay when you get there; he made his escape at the first exit he saw, for fiftyfive cents, and now he was on the old road buzzing the staid turnpike by turns over and under, teasing it crazy. ...more
Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall

Jack Kerouac
I’ve all these two days spent filing old letters, taking them out of old envelopes, clipping the pages together, putting them away . . . hundreds of old letters from Allen, Burroughs, Cassady, enuf to make you cry the enthusiasms of younger men . . . how bleak we become. And fame kills all. Someday ¨The Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac¨ will make America cry. [— Jack Kerouac, in a letter to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, May 25, 1961]
Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

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