The Beat Generation: An American Dream

The documentary Beat Generation: An American Dream provides an excellent introduction to an extremely vital and influential 20th century literary movement. Most of the key players are featured either through interviews or archival footage. News reels, propaganda, and pop culture... Full review

Poet Anne Waldman, author of the famous Fast Speaking Woman in the mid-1970s, has reached light speed. The author of over 30 volumes of poetry, editor of many magazines and several anthologies, and professor/director at the Jack Kerouac School of... ... Full Article

The combination of jazz and poetry is magical, and Portsmouth has been lucky enough to be home to the festival that celebrates it all: Jazzmouth. ... Full Article

I've always thought of Allen Ginsberg as an interesting figure. Interesting enough for two separate biopics, I don't know, but that's what's going on. First we've got Howl , which will focus on Ginsberg's poem of the same name, which... ... Full Article

By catherine atkinson | Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 09:51 AM If you could cast any actor in Hollywood to portray the one of the Beat Generation writers, who would you pick and which writer would he portray? ... Full Article

In our review of the 48 Hour Music Festival (by Andrew Frederick, February 27), the third drummer of VICIOUS BLOW was misidentified. He does not share a name with the late vocalist of INXS, but is instead MICHAEL C. ... Full Article

Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac, seen here in 1962, wrote his first novel in 1942. (Associated Press) The first novel Jack Kerouac ever wrote, when he was a merchant mariner in 1942, will be published in its entirety for the... ... Full Article