Beat Scene / Beat Generation / Bohemians

*note: This section will be developed in a later installment of Mark/Space. In the meantime, both the Burroughs and Ginsberg entries will lead you to more. Also check the Additional Links below.

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• The Beat Generation by Bruce Cook
  (1971, non-fiction)

• Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village by Fred W.McDarrah and Gloria S.McDarrah
  (19??, non-fiction)

• The Beat Generation Writers edited by A.Robert Lee
  (February 1996, non-fiction, anthology, academic essays...Pluto Press, London, UK)

• The Beats edited by Seymour Krim
  (1960, anthology)

• The Beat Scene edited by Elias Wilentz
  (1960, anthology...Corinth Books, New York, US)

• Beat Spirit: The Way Of Beat Writers as a Living Experience by Mel Ash
  (19??, non-fiction)

• The Beats: Writers Outside the Margin edited by Jeffrey H.Weinberg
  (19??, anthology)

• The Beat Voices: An Anthology of Beat Poetry edited by David Kherdian
  (1960, poetry, anthology)

• Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation edited by Carol Tonkinson
  (19??, non-fiction)

• The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels and Hipsters 1944-1960 by Steven Watson
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Bohemia: Digging the Root of Cool by Herbert Gold
  (19??, non-fiction, cultural autobiography)

• Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet by Herbert Gold
  (1993, non-fiction, cultural autobiography...Simon & Schuster, New York, US, hbk... left bank, beat generation, counterculture)

• A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation edited by Richard Peabody
  (1997, non-fiction, fiction, anthology, poetry...Serpent's Tail, London, UK)

• The End of American Innocence by Henry F.May
  (1964, non-fiction)
  "This book has a good account of the Chicago Bohemian scene." --Harvey Wasserman (in Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States , 1972).

• The Fallen Angels by Allen Ginsberg et al
  (19??, anthology)

• Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body by Sally Banes
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Greenwich Village Culture and Counter Culture edited by Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz
  (19??, non-fiction, anthology)

• The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
  (1959, novel... "Beat scene, Venice, California")

• Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs by John Tytell
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Naked Lens: Beat Cinema by Jack Sargeant
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Paris Interzone by James Campbell
  (19??, ?)

• Penguin Book of the Beats edited by Ann Charters
  (19??, anthology)

• The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century by Michael Davidson
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Women of the Beat Generation by Brenda Knight
  (19??, non-fiction... contains: a Foreword by Anne Waldman)

"The Beat Goes On" by Kathy Acker
(article published in 21C Scanning the Future , #23, 1997... beat generation, William S.Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg)

"Unspeakable Visions"
(interesting hypertext essay on the beat scene...
maintained by Michael Hayward... e-mail: hayward@sfu.ca)
"Well worth a read." --Henry W.Targowski.

Beat FAQ
("This has links to Beat pages, publishers and book stores." --Marcus Williamson.)

Black Wearing Coffee Drinkers
(wearing black, drinking black... Beat Generation included)

Bohemian Home Page
(links site)

City Lights Bookshop
(Literary home of the Beat Generation)

Literary Kicks
(website maintained by Levi Asher)
"This site has really developed over the years, it's probably the best overview on the beat scene available on the internet... do check it out... most highly recommended." --Henry W.Targowski.

Shadow Changes Into Bone -- Mongo's Allen Ginsberg Page
("My goal is to be the clearinghouse for all information on Allen Ginsberg existing on the Web. I think I've gone a long way toward that goal, with several hundred links, pointing to poems, photos, interviews, articles, commentary, humor and other assorted Ginsbergia." --Mongo BearWolf.)

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