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(Holmes referred to the book as a roman à clef.) It is considered to be the first published novel depicting the beat generation. Set in New York, it concerns the lives of a collection of characters largely based on the friends Holmes used to hang around with in the 1940s and 1950s in Manhattan. An underworld of drug-fueled parties, bars, clubs ...
John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 – March 30, 1988) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go.Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg.
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is a 2006 nonfiction book by journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.The book is about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, specifically about the role of newspapers and television.
The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac, himself, as the narrator, Sal Paradise. The idea for the book formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks and was then typed out, on a continuous reel of paper, during three weeks in April 1951.
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, or Junky, is a 1953 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs.The book follows "William Lee" as he struggles with his addiction to morphine and heroin.
Several of her poems also appeared in Beat and Beatific II in 1959. Kandel was briefly notorious as the author of a short book of poetry, The Love Book. A small pamphlet consisting of four poems, The Love Book provoked censorship with its three-part poem, "To Fuck with Love."
Albert Fairchild Saijo (February 4, 1926 – June 2, 2011) was a Japanese-American poet associated with the Beat Generation.He and his family were imprisoned as part of the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, during which time he wrote editorials on his experiences of internment for his high school newspaper.
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (1983) is a memoir by Joyce Johnson documenting her time with Jack Kerouac. [1] The book also tells the story of the women of the Beat Generation, the "minor characters" of its title. The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award. [2]