From late-night loft parties to crowded poetry nights, a new book featuring unseen work from photographer Burt Glinn depicts the era in all of its glory.
Creativity and innovation are hallmarks of San Francisco, where a startup mentality continues to define us. We routinely set foot on the hallowed grounds of storied cultural landmarks—unprecedented venues at their inception that remain progressive icons today. Here, insiders reminisce on the impact ...
The literary world has become more gender-inclusive since the beats of the 1950s. Just as well, because it’s jarring to find yourself in love with a world that doesn’t love you back
The Beat Generation is a group of American post-WWII writers and poets from 1950. Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg are among the best examples of Beat Literature.
Like the French Impressionist artists of Paris, the Beat writers were a small group of close friends first, and a movement later. The term “Beat Generation” gradually came to represent an entire period in time, but the entire original Beat Generation in literature was small enough to have fit into a couple of cars (at […]
Dive into the impact of beatniks and the beat generation on culture and literature, exploring their enduring influence on society.
Mundo de Livros - "Há sempre uma estrada em qualquer lugar, para qualquer pessoa, em qualquer circunstância. Como, onde, porquê?" – Jack Kerouac
"You don't have to be right. All you have to do is be candid." TRQ: Allen Ginsberg, Born June 3, 1926 Beat Generation wr
Two disc CD set of the Jazz music that inspired the Beat Generation.
A roman à clef novel for the Beat Generation, based on the life of author Jack Kerouac. Amazingly, the cover of this American classic, published in 1957, was designed by British author Len Deighton, while still working as a book and magazine illustrator before he wrote his first novel The IPCRESS File in 1962. Why not add one of our brilliant hanging kits? With magnetic clasps securing the frames together, they can easily be switched from one poster to another. A1 size, 84 x 59.4 cm. Dimensions include 5cm white border. Printed on 150 gsm silk matt paper. The poster is delivered rolled. Wooden poster hanging kit measures L61 x W2 x H2 cm (61 cm is the short edge of an A1 poster or the long edge of an A2 poster).
But many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is--drum roll here--Newark. This is a city that struggles with many burdens.
Can the lips and dig the crazy Beatnik jazz...
Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg, January 4, 1952.
A new book of photographs by Burt Glinn – featuring a recently discovered essay by Jack Kerouac – captures the beat generation in all their jazz-heavy, late-night glory
Die Bhagavadgita gilt als eine der zentralen Schriften des Hinduismus. Sie entstand etwa zwischen dem fünften und dem zweiten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert und ist eine Zusammenführung mehrerer verschiedener Denkschulen des damaligen Indien auf der Grundlage hauptsächlich der Veden, der Upanishaden, des Brahmanismus und des Yoga. Richard Karl Garbe (1857 - 1927), deutscher Indologe, leistete bedeutende Beiträge zur Erforschung von Samkhya, Yoga und der Bhagavadgita. Das vorliegende Werk bringt seine Übersetzung des Textes aus dem Sanskrit und versieht ihn mit einer Einleitung über seine ursprüngliche Gestalt, seine Lehren und sein Alter. Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1905.
In January 1962, Jack Kerouac wrote a piece for Writer's Digest asking, "Are Writers Made or Born?" Here are some quotes from that article. What do you think?
He was the penniless itinerant who, after stints as a sailor, a pirate and a gold digger, became a literary star – before the excesses of adventure cut his...
Der Brite Joe Mellen erklärt im Interview, warum es so wichtig ist, unser Bewusstsein zu erweitern – und warum er das mithilfe eines Bohrers gemacht hat.
