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Authors, American 20th century Biography Authors, American 20th century Correspondence Authors, American 20th century Interviews Beat generation Beat generation Biography Beat generation Interviews Beat generation Poetry Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 CorrespondenceDuval, Jean-Francois.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sun Dog Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUVBall, Gordon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BALSummary: This incisive and entertaining portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America. In 1953 Ferlinghetti opened City Lights Bookstore, which quickly evolved into an iconic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FERKerouac, Jack
Summary: Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac's sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac's major poetic works--Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Poems All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus--along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KERWelch, Lew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey Fox Press 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WELSummary: Interweaves footage from Burroughs' public readings, experimental films in which he appears, his paintings, and an extensive interview with German writer Jürgen Ploog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Edge 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILJohnson, Joyce
Summary: A profile of the iconic author's early years offers insight into his efforts to bridge his dual cultural heritage while exploring how his French Canadian background enriched his prose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEROUAC, JACK JOHKerouac, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1990
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Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERKerouac, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEROUAC, JACK KERSinclair, Iain
Summary: "The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SINCLAIR, IAIN SINLeland, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: In time for the Grateful Dead's fortieth anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the first behind-the-scenes history of the Dead. Lesh chronicles how the Dead's signature sound emerged, flowed, and swelled to reach millions of devoted fans, from their first gigs at Frenchy's Bikini-A-Go-Go for an audience of three, to the legendary Acid Tests, to packed stadiums around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 787.87 LeshMaher, Paul
Summary: A Kerouac scholar traces the true adventures behind the twentieth century classic novel and discusses the real-life inspirations for the novel's memorable characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERSummary: In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 BEACassady, Neal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blast Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 CASGinsberg, Allen
Summary: A posthumous collection of more than 100 Ginsberg poems largely comprised of spontaneously penned or forgotten works included in letters or sent to obscure publications. The collection is arranged in chronological order and complemented by extensive author notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GINKerouac, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey Fox Press; [distributed by Book People, Berkeley, Calif.] 1973
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Summary: Gary Snyder and his friend Jim Harrison meet to discuss love, lives and what has become of them over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: William Burroughs: the Beats éminence grise, "literary outlaw," culture hero to generations of poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers who had their minds blown by his 1959 classic, banned-in-America "Naked Lunch." This film covers his life in a straightforward manner, but the portrait drawn is at odds with the character who wrote in outlandish graphic detail about then-forbidden sexuality in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yonilizer Productions 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILSummary: Award-winning docu-drama about the king of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac. Combines rare footage featuring Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Burroughs with music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Zoot Sims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Video 2003