Kerouac Alley*
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*Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place) is a one-way alleyway in Chinatown, San Francisco, California that connects Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue, running between "Vesuvio Cafe"
(255 Columbus Ave.) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights Books" (261 Columbus Ave.).
The Beat Generation
Beat Generation Quotes
"Who are all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me?"— Jack Kerouac
 "Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires."— Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac
"To rebel! That is the immediate objective of poets! We can not wait and will not be held back...The "poetic marvelous" and the unconscious are the true inspirers of rebels and poets."—Philip Lamantia
"We had gone beyond a point of no return- and we were ready for it, for a point of no return...We wanted voice and we wanted vision."—Michael McClure
". . . In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and
nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a
gospel for the first time. It was more than a music;
it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a
language and a costume; and these introverted kids...
now felt somewhere at last."
—John Clellon Holmes
"when Mrs Kindhead comes to collect for the Community Chest
grab her and tell her There are unfavorable omens in the sky!
And when the mayor comes to get my vote tell him
When are you going to stop people killing whales!"-Gregory Corso 
"Sometime in the last twenty years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment." -Gary Snyder
"Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?" -Richard Brautigan
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
-Charles Bukowski
"A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what’s going on." -William S. Burroughs
"I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men."
-Neal Cassady
"The True Rebel never advertises it. He prefers his joy to Missionary Work". -Lew Welch
" If you want to be hip my cute young lovely hens
then--you must own a copy of Howl--
you must have a copy of Jack (on the road) Kerouac
on your shelf and know thouself." - Ted Joans (Teducation)
The Beat Generation Multimedia Directory
The Beat Generation (Part 1)
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The Beat Generation (Part 2)
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Jack Kerouac - "King of the Beats"  |
Allen Ginsgerg and Neal Cassady @ City Lights Book Store in San Francisco
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Gregory Corso discusses Jack Kerouac
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William S. Burroughs - BBC Arena program from 1998
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Diane di Prima reading
at Naropa Institute
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David Amram @ fundraiser for Jack Kerouac house
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The Beat Museum - ABC7 Interviews Jerry Cimino
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The Beat Museum - A Playboy Interview
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Beat Museum of San Francisco. A Film by Rolan Pan
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A Tour of City Lights Books in San Francisco
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San Francisco: Caffe Trieste in North Beach
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- Frank Robert - "Pull My Daisy" 1959 (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso film)
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Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac - David Amram
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Mal Sharpe walks where Beat poets Kerouac
and Ginsberg walked in San Francisco's North Beach.
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Lunch Poems 1 - Joanne Kyger
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Lunch Poems 2 - Joanne Kyger
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Lowell Blues: the words of Jack Kerouac Readings by: Carolyn Cassady, Gregory Corso, Johnny Depp, David Amram, Robert Creeley and Joyce Johnson.
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The Beat Generation
Map of America
Library of Congress
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"When the Beats Came Back" (Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder)
A PDF file of John Suiter's article, including footnotes,
acknowledgments, and suggested reading. (Reed College)
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Jan Kerouac (Jack's daughter)
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Jack Kerouac Voice of the Road
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NCTV11 Interviews - Gary Snyder  |
Anne Waldman at Jack Kerouac Gala Video
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Bukowski
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Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): talks about writing poetry.
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Beat Generation Internet Directory
Culture Clash
Why Beat Still Matters
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Glory Days
in Greenwich Village
Beat Generation Photography
by Fred W. McDarrah
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Beatfootprints.com - A Photographic Essay of Beat Generation Landmarks in New York City
Just when I thought there was nothing new on the web!
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How Herb Caen Named a Generation: San Francisco Chronicle-1995
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Beat whisky & Poésie
From France (French)
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Hotel Boheme
Hotel in San
Francisco's Northbeach,
With Beat Links
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City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, A Landmark in
San Francisco's North Beach
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This is the Beat Generation
A Beat Site From France
(French)
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The Beat Generation Conference
NYU 1994
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Beat Site
In Russian
(Cyrillic)
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 Painters and Poets of the 50's
From the Smithsonian
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Early Beat Generation Literature
A Cultural Chronology
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The Beat Generation
at the Lilly Library
Indiana University
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Jack Magazine
An Excellent Online Beat Magazine
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RALPH
Neo Beat Site.
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"The Birth of the Beatnik"
From "The Richmond Review"
(United Kingdom)
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Studies in Popular Culture
Rumblings of Discontent: American Popular Culture and Its Response to the Beat Generation,
1957-1960
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"Wichita Vortex": The Beat Generation in Kansas
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Unspeakable Visions: The Beat Generation
and Bohemian Dialect |
| Ghosts of the Beat Generation Haunt North Beach:
San Francisco Chronicle-1995
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Beatitude
: An Excellent Beat Site!
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Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters: Kesey, Cassady and All
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alt.books.beatgeneration: Usenet Newsgroup
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| Ball's Beat Generation Home Page: A Directory From The Virginia Military Institute.
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Beat Scene: An Online Magazine |
The Beats in San Francisco: The West Coast
(From the University of Virginia Library)
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The Beats in New York: The West Coast
(From the University of Virginia Library)
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How Beat Happened: An Essay by Steve Silberman
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DHARMA Beat: An Online
Journal |
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The Danish Pathway to
the Beat Generation: From Denmark (English)
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North Beach Jazz Festival From San Francisco |
Evergreen Review The Classic Literary Magazine |
Beat Night in San Francisco
A Travel Essay |
Follow the Beats Through
Francisco's North Beach
FrugalFun.Com |
Literary San Francisco
The Beats |
San Francisco Public Library
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The San Francisco Poetry Renaissance
was
born one magic night
on Fillmore St.
Fillmore Museum
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Jazzbo on the Radio
Al "Jazzbo" Collins |
Elaine de Kooning:
Artist Profile
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Great Good Places:
The Beats at NY's
Upper West Side
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The Beat Goes On:
San Francisco's North Beach
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Vesuvio, A Beat Era Landmark
in San Francisco
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"The Last Tine I Committed Suicide":
Reviews of the 1997 Beat Film
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"Heart Beat":
Reviews of the 1980
Beat Film
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"The Subterraneans":
Reviews of the 1960
Beat Film
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CIRCLE Magazine
At A Landmark Bay Area Magazine of
Art and Literature
With Ties to Surrealism |
The Poetry Project
At St. Mark's Church.
(NYC)
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Beat Avenue - Erik Andersen "An Extraordinary 2-CD Set by One of the Formost Singer-Songwriters." |
David Amram at Home Around the World:
"...Composer/Conductor/
Multi-Instrumentalist,
a Living American Treasure" |
The Beat Generation: Art History |
Women of the Beat GenerationA Review
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The Beat Generation: Essays, Comments, Papers |
The Beat Generation: Bibliography |
The Beat Generation: BBC |
The Beat Generation: Jacket Magazine |
The Beat Generation: @Wikipedia |
The Beat Generation:
The Beat Movement on Film |
Encyclopedia: Beatnik:
NationMaster.Com |
Beat Definitions:
What Does the Beat Generation Mean? |
Beat Generation Bios:
@ Empty Mirror Books |
The Beats in Paris:
A Response to American Materialism, Commercialism
and the Cold War of the Fifties, Dawn Rae Meece |
Steve Lacy
: With Mal Waldron and the Beats |
Gregory Corso
Corso, the Film |
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Literary Kicks One of the oldest sites. The site has grown and become much, much more. |
| Doghitch.Com Hitchhiking & Road Travel in Search of Soul |
Books by the Beat Generation A review of major books (collectables) by the Beats, by Dr. Donald W. Miller, Jr. |
The "Beat Hotel" at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in Paris Wikipedia |
The Huncke Connection
Exclusive Interview with Beat Generation Icon Herbert Huncke
By Johnny Strike |
| Harold Norse, Poet
@ The Beat Museum |
Stuart Perkoff / Philomene Long - Death Bed Conversation
A central figure in the Venice
Beat scene. |
What Are Souls?
An Interview with Michael McClure - Jack Foley |
Ruined Time
The 1950s and the Beat |
Neal Cassady Letter
to Allen Ginsberg |
Beat Scene - Magazine
"The Voice of the Beat Generation" |
Bob Dylan
References and Resources
for the Poet/Rock/Folk Singer |
The Beat Museum on Wheels
"Spreading the Spirit of the Beats since 2004."
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The Beat Museum in North Beach
540 Broadway (at Columbus)
San Francisco, CA 94133
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Kerouac Alley Books, Etc.
Beat Generation Books & Beat Era Jazz
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"Bird and the Beats" (Charlie Parker):
By Ted Joans |
This is the Beat Generation
by John Clellon Holmes
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