An Analysis of Beat Cinema

Museum located in Pasadena, California. Featuring writers, poets, film, artists, photographs, manifestos, and critical writing.

Kerouac memories, a Guthrie symphony and a trip to Nathan?s Coney Island hot dog emporium

An international writer with ties to the Beats; author of "The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation"

Why the Beats Still Matter by actor J.C. Shakespeare

Run-ins with the law by the Beat Generation founders.

Subcultural stories and resources with book reviews, recommended links, original articles and event listings. Featuring Jack Kerouac and influential beat characters.

The writers of the Beat Generation, many of whom were gay or bisexual, endorsed gay rights as a part of their rebellion against inhibition and self-censorship.

Unique renderings of Beats by Jesse Crumb (son of R. Crumb) on promotional cards. Includes Lenny Bruce, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Thelonious Monk.

An overview of Beat poetry, literature, history, and film.

Quotes by or pertaining to a beat author.

A large list of beats and people related to the beat movement.

An online discussion forum devoted to the study of the lives and works of the writers of the Beat Generation, especially Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.

Collection of links and original articles. Many Beats were from Kansas. Original photos of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure.

Magazine which documents and highlights the writers, poets, musicians and artists of America's Beat Generation.

Featuring paintings of Beatniks, bizarre weird art from the beat era, and other wonderful ephemera...first pop culture history of the beatniks

Comprehensive list of books, articles and essays about the Beats from University of Maryland class: The Beat Begins - America in the 1950s

A directory articles and resources for authors of the beat generation.

by Dr. Oliver Harris, Dept. of American Studies, Keele University, England, leading Burroughs scholar.

Photographs of Beats William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, others.

Gay Today magazine article by Jesse Monteagudo, written following the deaths of gay Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke, on their impact on modern culture.

Official Denver, CO, site with driving tour, including directions to many different sites and buildings related to Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac. Includes bars, buildings, and locations, with photographs.

A directory on writer Jack Kerouac, and his friends, including Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady.

Started in the 1950s, classic New York-based underground magazine. From classic 'hip' stories to the latest literature and art. Beat Generation issues in the archives.

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Describes the origins of the Beat Generation based on Anne Charter's 'Portable Beat Reader'.

Lost Beat poets

Ball teaches at the Virginia Military Institute -- a photo of Allen Ginsberg teaching Ball's class is now a classic.

A portfolio website for CBS News Radio reporter Michael Hibblen featuring sound clips of the Beat Generation

Article from SF Weekly.

Caprice magazine founder; interviewed on his 80th birthday in 2003 by poet Denise Low.

Collection of music, literature and spoken word exploring jazz as a central theme in the Beat Movement.

A free-form study of Beat Literature, literary community and underground culture -- growing since 1994!

Beat poet McClure & former Door's band member Manzarek's website focuses on their collaboration of music & poetry projects & publications, performances, books, CDs, and videos.

In memory of Patricia Harrison, with notes on Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs; also Louise Nevelson and others.

In Wichita, Kansas, Moody Connell believed in a mix of hoboes and Beats and served them simple fare in a place to congregate, by Pat O'Connor.

Poems by Paul Farrar Lawless (1915-83), the forgotten beat poet. A dedicated pacifist, these poems reflect a spiritual journey to Mt. Shasta on the eve of America's involvement in WWII.

New American Bohemian Literature, George Wallace, editor. Fiction, photographs, Beat events

Kerouac and company were David Gates' first literary loves -- but he had to get off their road.

by Grant L. Allen. Transition from beat idea to beatnik myth distorted the original almost beyond recognition.

A guide to web resources, combining Beats and leading into the Hippies & 1960s. Created and maintained by Alan Keig, University of Adelaide Library, Australia. Adds a unique non-USA view of the Beats.

Biographies, photos and included works of Beat Generation writers.

A collection of interviews, memories and articles by Al Aronowitz, the infamous Black Listed Journalist, who was actually there

Poet Lee Streiff's site on the many Beat Generation artists that lived in Wichita, KS. Covers 1947-1966; includes Dave Haselwood, Charles Plymell; with original photos of Bruce Conner and Michael McClure in high school, other rare views of early 1950s.

University of Virginia. Sharp cover images of first-edition books by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady.

Take the Beat Generation Quiz and see how smart you really are.

Colin Pringle's articles and directory on wild cats and chicks, Hippies, the Beat Generation, Bohemian bands, outlaw bikers.

by Michael Haywood. 1991 paper on the history of the Beat writers in print, from their early stirrings in the underground press, through to their publication by mainstream publishers.