The Beat Generation exploded onto the American literary scene in the 1950s, challenging literary conventions and social conformity through experimental writing that rejected the era’s materialism and ...

Rumors of a movie based on Jack Kerouac‘s On the Road have been around for so long that Montgomery Clift, who died in 1966, was once floated for a leading role. Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights ...

Sydney Hastings-Wilkins/DAILY. Buy this photo. Sydney Hastings-Wilkins/DAILY. Buy this photo. In an exploration of Ann Arbor’s robust and diverse literary scene, The Michigan Daily’s Business beat ...

Intending to revive the tentative soul of Beat Generation, Neo-Beat made its last meeting in İstanbul. Next direction of the group is to Zeytinli Fest. Neo-Beat Generation aims at reviving the ...

The late Alan Watts, a philosopher, scholar, speaker, writer, and seminal figure in the counterculture of the Beat Generation, is getting a new publishing deal more than 50 years after his death.

It began with a poem. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …” When Allen Ginsberg read his poem “Howl” at the now-closed Six Gallery in San Francisco ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...