Beat Generation

A New Generation Debuts: Plurals

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.07.2012

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Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Evidence of the arrival of America's newest adaptive generation has surfaced in recent research, which is beginning to define how and why this latest Adaptive generation differs from the older Millennial Generation.

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A Brief Renaissance: Holiday Lounge And Chinatown Fair Come Back To Life

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Chinatown Fair Arcade, East Village, Daniel Radcliffe, Lower East Side, Kill Your Darling, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Holiday Cocktail Lounge, Beat Generation, Kurt Vincent, New York News

New York's "lost city bloggers" are astir this week, as two of the city's recently vanished cultural institutions are (kind of) getting a second chanc...

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Ed Ruscha + Jack Kerouac = Poetic Wandering

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: On the Road, Ed Ruscha on the Road, Jack Kerouac, Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art, Ed Ruscha Denver, Ed Ruscha, Beat Poetry, Beat Generation, Surrealism, Slidepollajax, Allen Ginsberg, Denver Art Museum, Arts News

Ed Ruscha's paintings look simple, which is what makes their complexity so confounding. Like a short poem, you can enjoy a Ruscha work in a matter of ...

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Jack Kerouac Play To Make Its World Premiere

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Video, Beat Poets, Beat Generation Play, Jack Kerouac, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Beat Poetry, Beat Poet Play, Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac Play, Arts News

NEW YORK — Jack Kerouac's only full-length play will be staged for the first time this fall. Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the University of ...

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'A Poem Is A Song. It Is In Your Heart And You Can Breathe It With Your Mouth.'

John R. Eperjesi | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Beat Generation, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, South Korea, Poetry, Gary Snyder, Culture News
John R. Eperjesi

Rainhat's gently staggering poems are spontaneous, lyrical, physical and immediate. When his grandmother, a farmer, tells him she doesn't understand poems, he explains to her, "A poem is a song. It is in your heart and you can breathe it with your mouth."

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Katy Perry: 'Firework' Inspired by Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'

Jerry Cimino | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Russell Brand, On the Road, Beat Generation, Firework, Russell Brand Katy Perry, Jack Kerouac, Katy Perry, Video, San Francisco News
Jerry Cimino

It sounds like On the Road made a pretty big impression on Katy Perry. It turns out her big hit, "Firework," was inspired by probably the single most famous line Kerouac ever wrote.

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Istanbul Publisher Faces Obscenity Trial For Releasing Book

AP | By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Ruhi Ozbilgic, Islam, Istanbul, Turkey, Irfan Sanci, Book Banning, Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Suha Sertabiboglu, The Exploits of a Young Don Juan, The Soft Machine, Books News

ISTANBUL -- Half a century after a U.S. obscenity trial, the work of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs is heading back to court, this time i...

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Literary Classic Headed To Film

Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Big Sur Movie, Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac Big Sur Movie, Big Sur, Books, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Big Sur, Movies, Entertainment News

Fifty-plus years later, the Beat Generation is finally making its mark in film. A big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur," about the fame...

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Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20)

Bill Bush | Posted 05.25.2011

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Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lionel Trilling Lecture, Paco Benet, Martha Foley, James Baldwin, Woody Allen, Alfred-Leslie, Rudy Burkhardt, Carson McCullers, The Reading Room, Chekhov, Jean-Luc Godard, J.D. Salinger, Louise Lasser, Claude-Lanzmann, Hans Hoffmann, Beat Generation, Primo Levi, Velazquez, Apropos De Nice, Barbara Probst Solomon, Kenneth Koch, Cervantes, Frank O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Moma, Peter Schjeldahl, The Anatomy of Cindy Fink, Dissent, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Vigo, Abstract Expressionism, Tibor-De-Nagy, Jane-Freilicher, Larry Rivers, John Updike, Norman Mailer, El Pais, Robert Lowell, Marcel Proust, Prado, Felix-Nussbaum, Lionel Abel, Breathless, Columbia University, Grace Hartigan, Helen-Frankenthaler, Peninsula, Professor Yerushalami, Joseph Roth, Arts News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

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Beat Writers Celebrated at London Film Festival with Mixed Results

Charles Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Reviews, Beat Generation, Movie Review, Howl, William S. Burroughs, London Film Festival, Howl Poem, Allen Ginsberg, Movies, Beat Writers, Entertainment News
Charles Thomson

If you're not already a Burroughs aficionado, this documentary will teach you little about his work and probably not inspire you to seek it out, either. If you are already a Burroughs fan, chances are that you'll have heard it all before.

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Kirsten Stewart Tapped For Walter Salles' Adaptation Of Kerouac's 'On The Road'

The Hollywood Reporter | Stuart Kemp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Kristen Stewart, On the Road, Book Adaptation, Garrett Hedlund, Jack Kerouac, Sam Riley, Jose Rivera, Oscar Nominated, Beat Generation, Road Trip, Beatniks, Books News

LONDON -- Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are walking the line for Walter Salles' long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Jack Keroua...

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Allen Ginsberg Interview: Remembering The Iconic Poet Through His Photography And Words

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thomas Gladysz

I interviewed Ginsberg on the subject of photography on the occasion of an gallery exhibit of his photographs in San Francisco in 1991.

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Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, Anais Nin, Beat Generation, W.H. Auden, James Baldwin, Harold Norse, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, Hotel Nirvana, City Lights, Healthy Living News
Jan Herman

He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.

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It's Official: Nobody's Cool. (Kerouac Posthumously Blows It)

Dean Sluyter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baseball, James Dean, Nirvana, Jack Kerouac, Cool, Lester Young, Prez, Beats, Beatniks, Hipsters, Hippies, Buddha, Miles Davis, Jazz, Fantasy Baseball, Charlie Parker, Beat Generation, Meditation, Marlon Brando, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Dan Brown, Fashion, Style News
Dean Sluyter

But cool as an outer pose, as an attitude you can cop, is dead. When the truly cool people show up in your life, you won't recognize them -- they'll be too cool for that.

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