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  • Beat Atlas
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    Beat Atlas

    Bill Morgan

    A companion to our guides to San Francisco and New York, Beat Atlas: A Guide to the Beat Generation in America is a state-by-state guide to the rest of the nation's significant Beat locales. From...
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  • The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox
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    The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox

    Nisi Shawl

    A long forgotten Beat poet brought back to life in utterly fantastical fashion. In beautifully vivid journal entries, Black poet Mardou Fox chronicles her 1950s and ‘60s experiences with the Beat...
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  • Walking the London Scene Walking the London Scene
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    Walking the London Scene

    Sydney R Davies

    The 'Beat Generation' were a well travelled crew. Best known for crisscrossing the US in search of adventures, 'kicks', God and each other, they also ventured out to far flung corners of the globe...
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  • Genius and Heroin Genius and Heroin
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    Genius and Heroin

    Michael Largo

    What is the price of brilliance?Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to...
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  • On the Road
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    On the Road

    Kerouac, Jack

    The exhilerating novel that defined the Beat Generation 'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.' Sal...
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  • Beatitude Beatitude
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    Beatitude

    Larry Closs

    New York City, 1995: Harry Charity is a sensitive young loner haunted by a disastrous affair when he meets Jay Bishop, an outgoing poet and former Marine. Propelled by a shared fascination with the...
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  • National Melancholy
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    National Melancholy

    Mitchell Breitwieser

    In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald,...
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  • The Purpose of Existence The Purpose of Existence
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    The Purpose of Existence

    Don Prentice

    This collection was written, mostly, ten years ago in France. I realize it is fairly simple and terse but want to convey my concise analysis of the situation. Now I am submitting it to the world...
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  • Traveler's Diarrhea Traveler's Diarrhea
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    Traveler's Diarrhea

    Andrew Bombeck

    "Forget the off-putting cover and the even more off-putting promise of humor "guaranteed to cause abdominal cramps, nausea" and far worse. Beneath these dire warnings, Andrew Bombeck's "Traveler's...
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  • Early Levy
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    Early Levy

    Back in print at last, two pioneering early works by Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah LevyBEAUTIFUL MUTANTS Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly...
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  • Literary Eats Literary Eats
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    Literary Eats

    Gary Scharnhorst

    This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book...
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  • Dustjacket Flowers Dustjacket Flowers
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    Dustjacket Flowers

    Pablo D'Stair

    "Pablo D'Stair is defining the new writer. There is NO ONE else. As reckless as Kerouac's 120-foot trace paper, D'Stair's independence from all of us needs to be studied and celebrated." (TONY...
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  • Overtime: Selected Poems
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    Overtime: Selected Poems

    Like his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the...
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  • West of the West
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    West of the West

    Leonard Michaels

    Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically...
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  • Tau & Journey to the End
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    Tau & Journey to the End

    Philip Lamantia

    Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. Tau is Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his...
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  • Dreams of Blues Dreams of Blues
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    Dreams of Blues

    Anthony M Barajas

    Dreams of Blues is the first publication by poet Anthony M. Barajas. A selection of poetry chosen by the author expands from 1990 to early 2005. The author's poetry is inspired by Jack Kerouac, Allen...
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  • Seclusion Vol. 1 Seclusion Vol. 1
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    Seclusion Vol. 1

    Henry Carrillo III

    Henry Carrillo III is a 21-year-old writer from central California. As a student in school, he despised literature and writing but as he grew older, he discovered the art of writing as a form of...
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  • River of Perfumes River of Perfumes
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    River of Perfumes

    Michael Stokey

    Post World War II America and teenage boys dreamed of adventure growing up in the 1950s, listened to Elvis Presley and read Jack Kerouac, yet it wasn't cruising Route 66 in a Corvette that united...
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  • Fast Speaking Woman
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    Fast Speaking Woman

    Anne Waldman

    Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with "Chant" as central to...
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  • Naked Lens
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    Naked Lens

    Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit—arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture—Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the...
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  • The Last Road Trip The Last Road Trip
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    The Last Road Trip

    Michael Judge

    When professional photographer Brett Tempest takes one last motorcycle trip across the United States to shoot the final pictures for a book of Americana, he meets with unexpected surprises. Not only...
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  • Toshiaki Mori: B, drawings of abstract forms
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    Toshiaki Mori: B, drawings of abstract forms

    Toshiaki Mori

    B, drawings of abstract forms consists of dynamic and perplexing collages in which photos are digitally spliced and reconfigured, then colored and overlaid with grids, shapes and text fragments...
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  • Fast Cars and Bad Girls Fast Cars and Bad Girls
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    Fast Cars and Bad Girls

    Deborah Paes de Barros

    Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories explores the road narratives of women and the various ways their work re-maps American space. Moving from Mary Rowlandson's famous...
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  • Princes Amongst Men
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    Princes Amongst Men

    Garth Cartwright

    Wide-ranging, irreverent and humorous, packed with fascinating – and sometimes tragic – details on lands and people who are rarely heard from.Princes Amongst Men is the only book to provide an...
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  • Omar T in San Francisco Omar T in San Francisco
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    Omar T in San Francisco

    Deamer Dunn

    In the tradition of a light-hearted contemporary mystery novel, enter the son of a restaurateur and an artist, Mr. Omar T Black. He is a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, with passions for women,...
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  • Palimpsest: A Memoir
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    Palimpsest: A Memoir

    Gore Vidal

    This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind...
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  • The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
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    The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley

    Robert Creeley

    Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry...
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    POOLHALL JAIL LIBRARY

    Loxton Berg

    Maniacal, darkly humorous and shocking; Poolhall - Jail - Library is a turbulent ride.A captivating true-life story, told through the eyes of mother and son, lifting the lid on what really happens in...
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  • The Transnational Beat Generation The Transnational Beat Generation
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    The Transnational Beat Generation

    Nancy M. Grace

    The Beat Generation writers and artists are typically identified as an American movement. Yet travel, Buddhism, drug experimentation, and European surrealism and romanticism were an integral part of...
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  • Crying for a Vision and Other Essays Crying for a Vision and Other Essays
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    Crying for a Vision and Other Essays

    Steve Scott

    In Crying for a Vision, British-born poet, musician and performance artist Steve Scott offers a challenge to artists and a manifesto for the arts. This new edition includes an introduction and study...
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  • Høney Rider Høney Rider
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    Høney Rider

    Benjamin North Spencer

    || ABOUT THE NOVEL || When Henry Nighteen wakes from an epileptic coma to discover that his sweetheart, Honey Rider, is dead, he must write his way out of a maze of drug addiction and amnesia to...
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  • Robert Frank
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    Robert Frank

    Robert Frank

    Yet another precious volume in his celebrated series of visual diaries, Was haben wir gesehen / What we have seen is all about people and places in the long and very convivial life of Robert Frank...
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    Harvard Psychedelic Club

    Don Lattin

    “[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac,...
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  • Fashioning Character Fashioning Character
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    Fashioning Character

    Lauren S Cardon

    It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged...
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  • The Holy Contour of Life ~A Spiritual Journey~ The Holy Contour of Life ~A Spiritual Journey~
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    The Holy Contour of Life ~A Spiritual Journey~

    David Conduct

    It was that holy traveller, Jack Kerouac, who first coined the phrase "the holy contour of life" and I think that this provides a fitting title for these reflections. We don't need a whole lot of...
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  • S'enfermer dans une cabane et écrire S'enfermer dans une cabane et écrire
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    S'enfermer dans une cabane et écrire

    Philippe Aubert de Molay

    Désormais mort et donc fantôme, l'écrivain américain Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), immortel (quoique...) auteur de Sur la route, décide de revoir un inoublié amour de jeunesse. Mêmes les revenants sont...
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    Marco Polo Didn't Go There

    Rolf Potts

    Marco Polo Didn't Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his...
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  • Endangered Species
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    Endangered Species

    Sandra Hochman

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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    The Twilight of Romanticism

    John David Wells

    The Twilight of Romanticsm is a fascinating account of the lives and literature of French Bohemian poets and writers of the Beat Generation in 1950's America. Beginning in 19th century France, every...
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  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity
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    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity

    Hoffman Matthew Hoffman

    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Immaturity follows the travels of Matt Hoffman as he confronts one hilarious scenario after another. While reconnecting with uproarious characters from his past and...
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  • Howl, and Other Poems Howl, and Other Poems
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    Howl, and Other Poems

    Allen Ginsberg

    "Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled "Howl and Other Poems." Ginsberg began work on "Howl" as early as 1954. "Howl" is...
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  • Poetics of Breathing Poetics of Breathing
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    Poetics of Breathing

    Stefanie Heine

    A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core...
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    Palimpsest: A Memoir

    Gore Vidal

    Vidal on Vidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subjectPalimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist,...
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  • Streams
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    Streams

    Sandra Hochman

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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  • Road Stories Road Stories
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    Road Stories

    Ed Davis

    "His writing shines in descriptive passages, showing his love of travel and landscapes . . ."                    --Publishers WeeklyIn 1972, Ed Davis, like many in his generation, felt the call of...
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  • Happiness Is Too Much Trouble
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    Happiness Is Too Much Trouble

    Sandra Hochman

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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  • Playing Tahoe
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    Playing Tahoe

    Sandra Hochman

    - Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem...
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