Duval, Jean-Francois.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sun Dog Press 2002

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Ball, Gordon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2011

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Summary: The first film to mix horror and comedy, tells of a beatnik coffeehouse busboy who finds acceptance as a sculptor until the terrible truth behind his work is revealed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Kerouac, Jack

Summary: Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003

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Summary: Filmmaker Chuck Workman explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Cutting back and forth between archival footage of his subjects and readings of selections from the authors' works, he creates a fast-paced collage of images that show how the Beats became the dominant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2000

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Kerouac, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012

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Kerouac, Jack

Summary: The author reads his poetry. Includes previously unpublished "Washington D.C. Blues" and some tracks of Jack singing the swing thing.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1999

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Welch, Lew.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey Fox Press 1976

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Contents: October in the railroad earth / Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen -- Gears / Gil Melle -- The Beat generation / Mamie Van Doren -- My baby / Ken Nordine -- Saturn / Sun ra and his Arkestra -- Jackie / Lambert Hendricks & Ross -- Atomic cocktail / Slim Gaillard -- Salt peanuts / Dizzy Gillespie -- Discovery of America / Al "Jazzbo" Collins -- Blue monk / Theonious Monk -- Dog / Lawrence Ferlinghetti...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Red Records 0000

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Summary: Interweaves footage from Burroughs' public readings, experimental films in which he appears, his paintings, and an extensive interview with German writer Jürgen Ploog.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Edge 2003

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Johnson, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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Kerouac, Jack

Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007

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Kerouac, Jack

Summary: Presents selections of poetry by the beat poet, Jack Kerouac.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1997

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Kerouac, Jack

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999

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Sinclair, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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Lesh, Phil

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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005

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Maher, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2007

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Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001

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