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Simon Warner, Leon Horton, Jonah Raskin
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  • Simon Warner

    Founding Editor, Rock and the Beat Generation. Author of Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture and co-editor of Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack.

  • Leon Horton

    Countercultural editor, writer, and interviewer. Editor of the acclaimed essay/memoir collection, 'Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet' (Roadside Press, 2024). Writer for Beatdom, Rock and the Beat Generation, International Times.

  • Jonah Raskin

    I was a teenage Beatnik in the 1950s. More than half a century later I am still a beatnik in spirit.

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