Rock and the Beat Generation
Simon Warner, Jonah RaskinWhere hip writers meet hot rockers
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 615 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Happy birthday to us...
By Simon Warner, Founding Editor, R&BG
IT FEELS LIKE we have been celebrating quite a rush of big anniversaries this year in the digital pages of Rock and the Beat Generation. Barely a. week has gone by without a timely commemoration of so...
Book review #69: Beatdom: The Allen Ginsberg Centennial
Beatdom: The Allen Ginsberg Centennial, ed. by David S. Wills (Beatdom Books, 2026)
Byy Jonah Raskin, Chief Book Reviewer
THE BEATDOM centennial volume devoted to Allen Ginsberg’s life and work arrived in my mailbox at the end of a month-...
Book review #68: Bob Dylan: Song by Song
Bob Dylan: Song by Song, Volume 1: 1962-1969 by Jack Walters (Fonthill, 2026)
By Simon Warner
FIFTY YEARS ago, I remember scudding about the pinball arcade of our college campus and there was a notable figure in that same corridor also lo...
Fariña's campus novel hits 60
By Paul Walmsley
ON A COLD October morning in Amsterdam in the early 1990s, riffling through the disordered second hand books at an outdoor stall in the city’s Leidseplein, I came across Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up...
Shirt story: Kerouac check retains allure
By Simon Warner
ARTEFACTS ASSOCIATED with Jack Kerouac have retained a lasting interest for collectors, not to mention auctioneers, who continue to see great value in objects that possess a personal aura, building on that potent cult of ce...
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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.
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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