It began with a poem. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …” When Allen Ginsberg read his poem “Howl” at the now-closed Six Gallery in San Francisco ...

Rumors of a movie based on Jack Kerouac‘s On the Road have been around for so long that Montgomery Clift, who died in 1966, was once floated for a leading role. Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights ...

The poet Allen Ginsberg was born ninety-two years ago today, on June 3rd, 1926. To celebrate, we’re bringing you pieces about the Beat Generation and the ways it changed American culture. Subscribers ...

The Beat Generation was a movement of ragtag poets and novelists whose work came to define the sentiments of many Americans throughout the 1950s, in turn directly inspiring the hippie and punk ...

The late Alan Watts, a philosopher, scholar, speaker, writer, and seminal figure in the counterculture of the Beat Generation, is getting a new publishing deal more than 50 years after his death.

Poet Allen Ginsberg howled across the literary landscape in the mid-1950s, heralding the start of the Beat Generation. This was the birth of the counter culture. Ginsberg was joined by his pals Jack ...

Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her feminist ...

When most people think of the Beat Generation they picture smoky lounges, cigarette smoke, and the restless verse of On the Road and Howl. Yet the legacy of this mid‑century literary revolt ...