Rock and the Beat Generation
Simon Warner, Leon Horton, Jonah RaskinWhere hip writers meet hot rockers
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Radio review #5: Allen Ginsberg's Last Soup
Allen Ginsberg’s Last Soup, BBC Radio 4 and Sounds, June 2nd, 2026
By Simon Warner
SOUP GLORIOUS SOUP? Or maybe not so glorious. Very recently the poet Sharon Mesmer, a student of Allen Ginsberg’s in the 1990s at Brooklyn College, describ...
Allen Ginsberg at 100 #8: Ann Charters
One of the most important chroniclers of the Beat Generation, Ann Charters met Jack Kerouac at his home in the mid-1960s while working on his bibliography and went on to publish her groundbreaking biography of the novelist in the early 1970...
Allen Ginsberg at 100 #7: Jonah Raskin
The author of American Scream, Jonah Raskin, had various encounters with Allen Ginsberg on both coasts over the years. His 2004 book is a biographical history of Ginsberg himself, of the wider Beat Generation and, most specifically, the poe...
Allen Ginsberg at 100 #6: Steven Taylor
For the sixth of our contributions to the celebration of Allen Ginsberg’s centenary on June 3rd, we turn to the recollections of a close collaborator with the poet. Musical accomplice Steven Taylor takes us on an Eastern European adventure...
Allen Ginsberg at 100 #5: Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson, author, memoirist and editor, was Jack Kerouac’s girlfriend when On the Road first appeared in 1957. She has has just published a wonderful article in the New Yorker about that time in her life and how Kerouac is remembered t...
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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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