The Beat Generation exploded onto the American literary scene in the 1950s, challenging literary conventions and social conformity through experimental writing that rejected the era’s materialism and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jami Cassady holds the book "The Joan Anderson Letter: The Holy Grail of the Beat Generation," in her home in Santa Cruz on Dec. 8 ...

The 100th birthday of the late Beat Generation hero Neal Cassady is Feb. 8. Events to celebrate the driver of the Hudson convertible in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and the psychedelic school bus in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Kerouac (Image: Supplied) Defining one’s sexuality has often been a complicated or nuanced task; this has been true since ...