Rock and the Beat Generation
Simon Warner, Leon Horton, Jonah RaskinWhere hip writers meet hot rockers
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Beat Soundtrack #39: Jack Walters
JACK WALTERS is based in the South West of England and is a staff writer for Pop Matters, where he has interviewed Greil Marcus and Dion DiMucci. ‘Mainly,’ he says, ‘I write album and book reviews. Most recently, I penned a review of the Br...
Live review #14: Allen Ginsberg at 100
Allen Ginsberg at 100, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, July 12th, 2026
By Simon Warner
A CELEBRATION of Allen Ginsberg in London town at one of the great city venues? It’s hard not to think of that earlier occasion at the Albert Hall when a...
Generation Beat #3: Pat Thomas
Earlier this year, we unveiled a new feature at Rock and the Beat Generation, a series of interviews framed under the heading ‘Generation Beat’ which focuses on a number of transatlantic trailblazers who have carried the Beat torch into the...
Remember books? We've read 70 of 'em!
Rock and the Beat Generation reveals a further expansion to its digital vault as our book review section reaches 70 titles, representing more than a write-up every month since this web publication was launched five years ago last month.
In...
Book review #70: Kerouac: Someday We'll Build Cabins
Jack Kerouac: Someday We’ll Build Cabins, The Letters of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Beckwith and Lois Sorrells Beckwith, ed. by Bill Morgan (Rare Bird, 2026)
Reviewed by Jonah Raskin, Chief Book Reviewer
ALL OF US KNOW or think we know, if we...
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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.
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.
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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