Maggie Cassidy
By: Jack Kerouac
4.00
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
"When someone asks 'Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night l…
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1. Kaddish and Other Poems
By: Allen Ginsberg
4.20
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “in the midst of the broken consciousness of m… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
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- 20th century
"The weight of the world is love."-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"What came is gone forever every time"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"No more to say, and nothing to weep for"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"-Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
2. The Yage Letters
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg
3.66
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
The Yage an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junki… read more
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- literature
- classics
- american
"Cuando empezaron a decir que la literatura norteamericana no existía y que la inglesa era mala, perdí la compostura y les dije que la literatura española merecía estar en el retrete, colgada de un cl…"-William S. Burroughs, The Yage Letters
"Escúchame ahora. Coge esta carta. Recorta las líneas. Reordénalas colocando la sección uno junto a la sección tres y la sección dos junto a la sección cuatro. Luego léelas en voz alta y oirás Mi Voz.…"-William S. Burroughs, The Yage Letters
3. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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- classics
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- novels
"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
4. Imperial Bedrooms
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.19
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more
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- literature
- novels
- american
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"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
5. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
6. Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
By: Joyce Johnson , Ann Douglas
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily ass… read more
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- literature
"There is a terrible poignancy in this room of gratifications deferred"."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"We knew little of political realities. We had the illusion our own passions were enough. We felt that you could change everything just by being loud enough."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
7. Turtle Island
By: Gary Snyder , Michael Corr
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. Beat Poets
By: Carmela Ciuraru
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-… read more
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9. Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
By: Barry Gifford , Lawrence Lee
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating st… read more
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10. Maggie Cassidy
By: Jack Kerouac
4.00
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
"When someone asks 'Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night l… read more
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11. Planet News
By: Allen Ginsberg
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Planet News collecting seven years' Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassoci… read more
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- literature
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12. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
4.06
Format: None pages,
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more
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13. Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
By: Richard Brautigan , Gordon Legge
3.40
Format: None pages,
A collection of 62 very short stories set in 1960s California, particularly around the author's hom… read more
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14. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By: Elizabeth Smart
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more
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15. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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16. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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17. A Coney Island of the Mind
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life"and expresses the way Lawr… read more
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18. The Sound of the Mountain
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble fro… read more
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19. No Nature: New and Selected Poems
By: Gary Snyder
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
"The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst."… read more
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20. Memoirs of a Beatnik
By: Diane di Prima
4.43
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat… read more
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21. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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