This is a revealing look at the events and personalities that
defined the Beat Generation, drawing on over three decades of
research. Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture gets readers
past the caricature of the "beatnik" as a goateed, beret-wearing,
bongo-playing poseur, drawing on extensive research to show just
how profound an impact the beats had on American culture, politics,
and literature. Beatniks conveys the complexity, influences,
events, and places that shaped the Beat Generation from the late
1940s to the cusp of the 1960s. The book also features a series of
essays on specific aspects of the subculture, as well as interviews
with Beat Generation luminaries like Allen Ginsberg, Ann Charters,
Roy Harper and Michael McClure. Throughout, readers will meet an
extraordinary gallery of people both famous—Jack Kerouac, William
Burroughs, Neal Cassady—and lesser known but no less fascinating,
including Kenneth Patchen, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Jack Micheline,
Lew Welch, Joan Vollmer Adams, and Lenore Kandel. Also included is
a detailed glossary with the origins and meanings of the beat
lingo.
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