21st Century Beatniks versus Hieroglyphic Caricatures There’s long been a debate about the word “beatnik” — originally coined by a sensationalist San Francisco gossip columnist in 1958, playing on the Yiddish suffix “nik” and the first Russian satellite launched in September ’57 known as “Sputnik.” Jack and Allen & company hated the word back in […]
Beat Versus Beatnik
March 3rd, 2021 · 23 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
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Ken Kesey at The Jack Kerouac Conference
April 19th, 2015 · 11 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Real-life Adventure Tales
Then Along Comes Kesey . . Excerpted from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” available now. I was well into Jack — and this whole conference kicked that up a few dozen notches — like it did everybody else — but The Chief and The Boys (the Grateful Dead) — those were the magic […]
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