Jack Kerouac
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The writer on Freudian dreams, Tom Sawyer, and what ER Braithwaite taught him about race
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From noisy young punks to a tiny word on a ceiling, our critics recommend popular culture to light a fire underneath you
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Kim Jones, winner of Fashion Awards designer of the year, draws on Beat novel On the Road for his first show in London since 2003
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The novelist on her love of Virginia Woolf, being inspired by HG Wells and how Jack Kerouac’s ego puts her off his books
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Iconoclastic poet, editor and leading light of British counterculture during the 1950s and 60s
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Poet whose outlook spanned anarchism, ecology, publishing and the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco
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Poet and countercultural pioneer put on trial for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl went on to become a beloved icon of San Francisco
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Film director working on vast art installation inspired by cult classic On the Road
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When a medical condition left her in agony, The Essex Serpent author was prescribed powerful opiates. They gave her terrifying visions - and a new insight into literary drug culture
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Written 10 years before the book that defined the Beat Generation, appeal for a $25 sub is now on sale in California for $22,500
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A new book of photographs by Burt Glinn – featuring a recently discovered essay by Jack Kerouac – captures the beat generation in all their jazz-heavy, late-night gloryGallery
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At the dawn of the 1960s, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters were dropping LSD and kickstarting a revolution – and Wolfe went along for the ride, capturing the birth of the counterculture
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Most parents will have been horrified at the 12-year-old’s jaunt, but I like to think he did on behalf of all us more timid souls, says author Sam Leith
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John Updike’s disappointed young man dreams of escaping a workaday existence in a way that’s still familiar nearly 60 years on
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Ravaged by reckless living, the novelist died 100 years ago this month. His reports from a brutally unequal America do not feel out of date – so let’s pick a good one to read now
Brigid Delaney's diary I was longing for beatnik freedom – so I took an overnight bus to Yamba