Beat Generation books recordings & documentaries
Explore the best Beat Generation books, recordings, and documentaries. Discover iconic works by Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and more in this definitive guide to Beat culture.
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Her
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones." This is how the author describes this extraordinary expatriate novel.
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Exterminator!
by William S. Burroughs
A wity, rauchy, satrical novel from the Beat legend and author of Naked Lunch Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best.
