10 Beat Gen works that hit close to home in America’s political environment The Beat Generation exploded onto the American literary scene in the 1950s, challenging literary conventions and social ...

SAN FRANCISCO | A longtime friend of Carolyn Cassady has confirmed the writer who was the former wife of Beatnik Neal Cassady and lover of Jack Kerouac has died. She was 90 years old. Estelle Cimino, ...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico City was a magnet in the 1950s for some of America's greatest Beat Generation writers - Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others. Many of their old haunts in ...