Jack Kerouac

...refers to nonconformists of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Beat writers of the time include Kerouac, best known for On the Road, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Dressed in their best hipster attire, students arrived at 7:45...

In this article: Shel Silverstein, Pastry, Cocoa, Beat Generation, On the Road, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg

...implications resounding. It is 50 years since William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, which title Kerouac later explained, rightly or wrongly, as "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork". And although neither writer...

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...formed, with Carr at the center. As Ginsberg put it, "Lou was the glue. " Carr, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs explored New York's grimier underbelly together. Carr had a taste for provocative behavior, for bawdy songs and for coarse...

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...very good. Fortunately, there are exceptions, and this is one of them. In the 1940s, before cult status beckoned, Burroughs and Kerouac wrote a novel together. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks remained unpublished until now...

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...remembrances she shares here involve the Beats. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso founded the Jack Kerouac of Disembodied Poetics, which was associated with the Naropa Institute. Faithfull taught lyric writing at the school and...

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...widely with leading poets, artists, theologians and philosophers of the day, including Robert Graves, Edwin Morgan, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mark Boyle, John Blofeld, Michael Horovitz and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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...Alan Alda. And there is a movie in the pipeline about Lucien Carr, the friend who brought Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs together, and his murder of a gay stalker which Kerouac and Burroughs helped to cover up in 1944. A film of On the...

In this article: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, On the Road, Francis Ford Coppola, Lucien Carr, The Motorcycle Diaries, British Film Institute, University of Leicester, and University of Warwick

...debate group. In Ginsberg's freshman year at Columbia he met fellow undergraduate Lucien Carr, who introduced him to a number of future Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and John Clellon Holmes. They bonded...

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After graduating from South Brunswick High School in 1965, Fagen enrolled at Bard College to study English literature, having been inspired by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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