DHARMA beat - Links Page

1922 - 1969

Author of On the Road, The Subterraneans, DR SAX, Maggie Cassidy, Big Sur, plus over a dozen more (and new material is constantly being released), Jack Kerouac is the big daddy of the beat generation. And I don’t mean to imply that there was actually a beat generation (since many of the 'members' themselves deny that a 'beat generation' ever existed), but we can't deny that there was a group of writers, poets, painters, musicians and others, who hung out in various places like New York City, San Francisco, and points in-between; and who supported each other, collaborated with each other, and shared friendships with each other. Each person took an individualistic approach to their creativity, even if they did share some things in common. Together they leave behind an incredible legacy of books, poetry, music and art.

Jack Kerouac has his place in history. The last 50 years has seen On The Road continue to influence and inspire a new generation of people who have pursued their own creative process. Go climb a tree, go sing a song, go write a poem, and be compassionate, fair, and truthful. Live your life.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

On The Road, Chapter 1

KEROUAC LINKS

DHARMA beat - A Jack Kerouac Publication homepage = http://www.wordsareimportant.com/dharmabeat.htm

DHARMA beat's Kerouac Kalendar with information on Kerouac related events, including an On the Road scroll tour calendar = http://www.wordsareimportant/calendar.htm

DHARMA beat's "Auction of the 'On The Road' Scroll "page = http:/www.wordsareimportant.com/scroll.htm

Calendar of events for the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival every March and October = http://lckorg.tripod.com

On The Road - 50 Years Old - articles, essays etc about the 50th Anniversary of On The Road

Joyce Johnson in Vanity Fair = http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/08/kerouac200708?currentPage=1

Christian Science Monitor = http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0905/p13s01-lign.html

The Library of America interviews, Douglas Brinkley about Jack Kerouac, In connection with the publication in September 2007 of Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957–1960 = http://loa.org/images/pdf/Brinkley_Kerouac.pdf

New York Public Library = http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm

Voice of America (yes, even them) = http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2007-09-04-voa29.cfm

On The Road Scroll Tour = see DHARMA beat's calendar to find out where the scroll can be currently viewed.

Denver Post article on the Scroll = http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_4945075

Lowell MA, scroll information = http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html

New York Public Library scroll information = http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm

CNN report - People still taking to the 'Road' with Kerouac =

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/03/books.ontheroad.ap/index.html

Scoll Links - links to On The Road Scroll articles, websites etc

Unrolling the scroll in Lowell, MA = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmyS1EEVFbs

A blog report on the new scroll book = http://highwayscribery.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html#3671494958978740800

Scroll tour and pictures = http://www.ontheroad.org/

"Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence Project of Orlando" is a non-profit organization that has saved, purchased and renovated the Orlando house that Jack Kerouac lived in at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. It was also the house where Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac project is committed to nurturing the careers of writers and poets of all ages. Aspiring writers can apply to win scholarships and the privilege of living in the Kerouac House rent-free for 3 months to write in the spirit of Kerouac. For more information go to = www.kerouacproject.org

The Kerouac Rag - This is not a link, but it is a great small magazine from the UK that you should check out. Get a subscription. We need more publications that don't cater to the computer illiterate that we are all slowly becoming. The Kerouac Rag, Alan Griffey, 43 Chatto Road, Torquay, Devon TQ1 4HT, England. Subscriptions (4 issues): US - $20, UK - 8 pds. They now have an email address: al@alangriffey.freeserve.co.uk. Check it out.

Visions of Lowell and Rocky Mount by John Dorfner = http://members.aol.com/jjdorfner/kerouac.index.html

Beat Scene, nice publication (printed on paper in magazine format) on Kerouac and the beats = www.beatscene.net

The Beat Museum - Jerry Cimino's museum finally has a home in San Francisco = www.Kerouac.com

Jack Kerouac Wrote Here = http://jackkerouacwrotehere.blogspot.com/index.html

Jack Kerouac on-line magazine = www.jackmagazine.com

Images of Jack Kerouac Book Covers, this is a great selection of US, UK, and foreign edition of Kerouac titles put together by Dave Moore with some help from his friends.

On the Road = http://mysite.orange.co.uk/jkbooks/index.html

Visions of Cody = http://mysite.orange.co.uk/jkbooks/voc.html

Lowell Sun = Articles in the Lowell Sun, Kerouac's hometown.

Check out Jack Kerouac on My Space = http://www.myspaceprofiles.org/profiles/49107346.html

The Northport Days of 'On the Road's' Jack Kerouac (newspaper article, 9.05/2007) http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-etlede5358045sep05,0,577332.story

Tom Christopher's website, with a focus on Neal Cassady and Denver = http://www.tomchristopher.com/index.php?op=home/Beat%20Generation

This guy is blogging (okay, I don't really know what blogging is) about Kerouac places he visits, with information from Kerouac's books to guide him - http://littourature.blogspot.com/2007/05/on-road-alameda-avenue-burbank.html

Jack Kerouac Archives- This is a comprehensive listing (though I don't know if it is complete) of various institutions that have a Kerouac (or Kerouac related) archive = http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/s.jsp?q=Jack+Kerouac

Kerouac Archive at the New York Public Library (Berg Collection), their site with information of the collection = http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/berg/brgkerou/@Generic__BookView

Desolation Peak - The following websites take a look at Desolation Peak located in the Cascade mountain range in Washington. Kerouac was fire lookout in 1956. He wrote Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels based on his experiences there.

Mr. Hat visits Desolation Peak - Mr. Hat visits Desolation Peak and experiences The Great Sun Glasses Mystery and the Void.

http://www.nps.gov/noca/planyourvisit/desolation-peak-trail.htm - National Park Service

http://www.geocities.com/phoffman3/desolation/

http://www.beatangel.com/Desolation.html

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=8034

Charles Laughton reading an extract from THE DHARMA BUMS =http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/programs/giving_thanks/archive/2003/rafiles/14.ram

Jack Shea Tribute page (1951-2004): http://www.jackshea.co.uk He had been in the process of producing a movie called Who Owns Jack Kerouac that hasn't been released, see the trailer here = http://www.whoownsjackkerouac.com

NPR Program of 9/9/02 discussing Kerouac and On the Road = http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/ontheroad/index.html

Kerouac's medical record (being relieved from the Navy for medical reasons) - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0906052_jack_kerouac_1.html

Kerouac Commemorative by Ben Woitina, the designer of the Kerouac Commemorative in Lowell, MA. A link to his website = http://www.benwoitenasculptor.com

Lowell, MA National Park Visitor's Center Kerouac Page = http://www.nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/kerouac.htm

Sterling Lord (Kerouac's agent) excerpt on Jack Kerouac in Publisher's Weekly = http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6471371.html

DENVER'S BEAT POETRY DRIVING TOUR (follow Jack and Neal through Denver) = http://www.denvergov.org/AboutDenver/today_driving_beat_introduction.asp

"On The Road: A Kerouac Circus" is a mixed-media event based on Jack Kerouac's classic American road-trip novel, using a set of procedures created by American composer John Cage to "transform a book into a performance." = http://theroadonline.net/

American Writers, Kerouac C-Span television show = http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/kerouac.asp

Kerouac, Essentials of Spontaneous Prose = http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-spontaneous.html

Kerouac Speaks = http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/k_speaks/kerouacspeaks.html

Desolation Angels - a band out of the UK, who as the name implies, are Kerouac fans = www.desolation-angels.co.uk (their record company is www.bluecatmusic.co.uk which is also a fan of Kerouac)

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetic, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO = http://www.naropa.edu/writingandpoetics/index.html

Jack Kerouac Wikipedia entry = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac

New York Times, Book page with links to reviews of Kerouac Books = http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/07/home/kerouac.html

The Paris Review Interview = http://www.parisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4260

Kerouac = http://umn.edu/~beaversg/kerouac

Another Kerouac site = http://nonduality.com/jack.htm

This is an artist that produced a comic, A Vision of Kerouac as the Shadow = http://www.markbeebe.com/Kerouac%20title.htm

Radio-Canada, Canada's French public television channel has an interview with Kerouac online in its archives. The interview is in en francais. It was taped in 1967. = http://archives.radio-canada.ca/400d.asp?id=0-72-55-126-21

Announcing a new one man play based on the life of Jack Kerouac =
http://www.stevearowell.com/kerouac.htm

An author inspired by Kerouac = http://billectric.org/

There's an entry for Jack Kerouac in the "Influences Map" section of the new American Masters site for No Direction Home: Bob Dylan = http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dylan/dylan_kerouac.html

Kerouac and On The Road Articles

Kerouac's `Road' will be unrolled, Original scroll set for publication, By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff | July 27, 2006 = http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/07/27/kerouacs_road_will_be_unrolled/

Famous scroll rolls out "Kerouac Weekend" By John Wenzel, Denver Post Staff Writer, Updated: 01/04/2007 05:47:53 PM MST = http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_4945075

Listen to Jim Canary being interviewed by KCFR, and the scroll exhibition in Denver CO. Jack Kerouac typed his most famous work, On the Road, on one long scroll. He did it so he wouldn't lose steam by changing paper. That epic manuscript, purchased at auction in 2001 by Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, is on display at the Denver Public Library through March. Indiana University conservator Jim Canary is accompanying the scroll on a trip around the world. He speaks with Ryan Warner. = "On the Road" Scroll on Display at the Denver Public Library

Kerouac related Films

Ferrini Productions, producer of the film "Lowell Blues: words of Jack Kerouac" = http://www.artsgloucester.com/ferriniproductions

Go Moan For Man, a movie about Mr. Kerouac that premiered in 1999 - contact Doug and Judi Sharples at: Real Films, P.O. Box 476, Wakonda, SD 57073. E-mail: moan@RealFilms.net

Beat Angel - The film is about “the spirit of Jack Kerouac.” On the 30^th anniversary of Kerouac's death, his angelic spirit (played by Vincent Balestri) returns to earth in the abandoned body of a street bum. “Jack” drops in at a poetry slam held in honor of his “death day,” and backed by a jazz trio, explains the meaning of “bop spontaneous prose” and “speaking the truth.” He begins to transform the lives of three people: Gerard Tripp (played by Frank Tabbita), a secretive writer who locks his manuscripts away; Mary (Amy Humphrey), a shy young writer; and Carol (Lisa Niemi), a former painter turned bartender.

A popular festival selection across the U.S., garnering two award nominations at The Method Fest in Los Angeles, and winning the Wine Country Film Festival’s Special Prize of the Fest.

Available on DVD. DVD features: 19 minute video of Kerouac: The Essence of Jack; Writers Commentary with Balestri, Boyle, Tabbita and Allred; 12 chapters; deleted scenes; in English with French, Spanish, Italian and English subtitles. Film running time 99 minutes, color NTSC, all Regions. Available October 21, 2006 through www.BeatAngel.com, www.FilmBaby.com, Amazon.com, www.Kerouac.com and other selected outlets. Also find Beat Angel at My Space: www.myspace.com/beatangelthemovie

A beer please - Please know that "The Shepherd & The Knucklehead Pub" in Haledon, NJ, 973-942-8666, 529 Belmont Ave, is a shrine dedicated to the spirit of Jack Kerouac, just down the street from where "On the Road's" real trip began. Each thought and image inside the pub is inspired on by Kerouac's spirit, the pub was built in his memory; here where we make a virtue out of restlessness, where "we want to prowl and roam and to see the real America that had never been uttered." We think too, that Kerouac would have wanted to drink here because, everything he wrote "was true because he believed in what he saw!" To here at the pub, where we believe in "order, tenderness and piety." Come join us on poetry night and our opening vesper to Jack Kerouac. Monthly Poetry Reading in New Jersey, Kerouac style = www.myspace.com/shepherd_knucklehead

SETNOVA is not only a band, but a complete beat movement [according to the person who sent me the link]. They play in Argentina, traveling around the country like Kerouac, and they project some beat images in the concerts, the also read poetry from Kerouac, Ginsberg, and from Nicolás Chanseaud, the leader of the Argentinian beat movement = www.fotolog.net/setnova

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The beats - the following links usually talk about 2 or more of the beat writers.

Levi Asher's Literary Kicks (one of the best) = www.litkicks.com

The Beat Scene - a beat magazine out of the UK = http://www.beatscene.net/

The Beat Museum in San Francisco- Jerry Cimino, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133, 1-800-KER-OUAC, http://www.kerouac.com,
http://www.thebeatmuseumonwheels.com

THE BEAT PAPERS OF AL ARONOWITZ (aka The Blacklisted Journalist: May 20, 1928 - August 1, 2005) = http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/1beat.html Check it out.

Sore Dove - Publisher of some great chapbooks by some great poets including Ferlinghetti - WWW.SOREDOVE.COM

Beat Studies Association, an organization founded for the purpose of bringing together scholars, readers, and admirers of Beat Generation literature and art. I hope that you can find information here that adds to your enjoyment and appreciation of the achievement of Beat writers. Ann Charters is president. = http://www.wooster.edu/beatstudies/index.html

Beatitude, a nice little website about the beats and beatitude = http://members.aol.com/gethep/index.html

Empty Mirror Books = www.emptymirrorbooks.com/

The Beat Poets Society with links to Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady pic of William Burroughs that came from Art and Kit Knight = http://tree_shaman.tripod.com/beatpoets.html

The Beat Page = http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html

Beat links: http://word.to/beats.html

Poets on the Peaks, John Suiter's book about poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Kerouac during their fire-lookout summers in the North Cascades during the 1950s. Based on scores of previously unpublished letters and journals, plus recent interviews with Snyder and Whalen and many of their friends, Poets on the Peaks creates a group portrait of Kerouac, Snyder, and Whalen that transcends the tired urban cliches of "Beat" life. = http://www.poetsonthepeaks.com/index.php

The "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" based on the exhibiton. Poets and Artists have been grouped into four overlapping constellations: the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets. = http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/index2.htm

A Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature = http://www.connectotel.com/beat/beatchr1.html

Dharma Beats Roster = http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/

English 320W-02: The Beat Generation = http://www.mnsfld.edu/~julrich/beatweb.html

Beat Super Nova, the master list of all the beats and associates, this is the new updated list = http://www.geocities.com/rasa_rinaldo/thebeats/thebeats.htm

From Denmark = http://www.systime.dk/fagbank/engelsk/online/beatgen/

Great Modern Pictures, Fred W. McDarrah's celebrated photographic portraits of the beats = www.greatmodernpictures.com/newpage26.htm

General beat stuff = http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/5083/

New website from the UK (Jan 2005) = http://www.the-beat.co.uk/

Review of the movie "CHELSEA WALLS" about the Chelsea Hotel in NYC = http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2002/06/060703.html

Search = http://www.remarq.com/threads.asp?g=alt%2Ebooks%2Ebeatgeneration&nav=LAST

A new site out of the UK = www.the-beat.co.uk

ANGEL HEAD - dedicated to Beat and post-Beat generations on both sides of the Atlantic and has already featured writing by Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia and Ginsberg's friend and associate Randy Roark. The URL is = http://journals.aol.co.uk/tractorboy64/ANGELHEAD

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Beat L , unfortunately is no longer, but check out subterranean list.

Subterranean list - The Subterraneans List is an on-line discussion group devoted to the study of the lives and works of writers of the Beat Generation. The primary focus is on William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. Subterraneans is a moderated group, open to scholars, writers, students and Beat-aficionados.For general information go to http://www.bigtable.com/subterraneans

To subscribe, send a message to <subterraneans-request@kdsi.net> with the following message in the body:

subscribe subterraneans your@address.com

Alt.beatgeneration - check out the newsgroup, lots of comments on Kerouac and the beats

Allen Ginsberg - June 3, 1926 to April 5, 1997, author of Howl

Allen Ginsberg Trust, a very comprehensive site = http://www.allenginsberg.org/home.php

Poetry of Allen Ginsberg = http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5160/ginsberg.html

'Ginsberg etc.' = http://umn.edu/~beaversg

Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award = http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/poetry

Naropa Institute's Memorial Page = http://www.naropa.edu/ginsberg.html

Allen Ginsberg Memorial Page = http://www.buffnet.net/~deadbeat/ginsberg/

Allen Ginsberg site = www.allenginsberg.org

William Blake and Ginsberg = www.angelfire.com/ab2/blake1

Howl at Fifty, an article about the famous Gallery 6 reading in San Francisco 50 years ago = http://commongroundmag.com/2005/cg3209/howl3209.html

How 'Howl' won the Day, reviewed by Steve Heilig, Sunday, November 5, 2006 = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/05/RVGPGLVUOO1.DTL&type=books

The earliest recording of Howl? in = http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/winter2008/features/the_beats/index.html

William S. Burroughs 1914 -1997

Author of Junkie, Naked Lunch, among others.

The William S. Burroughs Files = http://www.hyperreal.com/wsb/

Burroughs = http://www.peg.apc.org/~firehorse/wsb/wsb.html

BERG COLLECTION AT New York Public Library purchases major Burroughs archive. A treasure trove of unpublished William S. Burroughs documents has been acquired by the New York Public Library. The Berg Collection already contains a tremendous amount of Kerouac material. Ginsberg's papers are located at Stanford in Palo Alto, California. Click below for details: New York Public Library - Press Release = http://www.nypl.org/press/2006/burroughs.cfm

Images of William Burroughs Book Covers = http://mysite.orange.co.uk/burroughs-books/index.html

RealityStudio, a William S. Burroughs Community = http://realitystudio.org/

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady, The Man Behind the Myth website. The website maintained by the Cassady family with articles and pictures, and some corrections to the myth. = http://www.nealcassadyestate.com/

The First Third

by Neal Cassady
Notes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Afterword by Carolyn Cassady

Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Ken Kesey, to name just some of his cohorts on the beatnik path, Cassady lived life to the fullest, ready for inspiration at any turn.

Collected Letters, 1944-1967

by Neal Cassady - Author
Dave Moore - Editor
Carolyn Cassady - Introduction by

“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady

Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassady’s life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.

The Great Sex Letter = http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5160/sex.html

Denver finally pays tribute to its most famous car thief. Neal Cassady made it onto the official Denver Government web site!!! = http://www.denvergov.org/AboutDenver/today_driving_beat.asp

The following are two links to articles by Tom Christopher who published "NEAL CASSADY VOLUMES ONE AND TWO ," a bio of Neal Cassady in magazine format on good paper, 48 pages and 96 pages, covering the years 1926 - 1940 and 1941 - 1946 respectively. This is a thorough research done on the life of Beat Generation and Prankster era icon Neal Cassady. Check it out.

Legends of Neal = http://www.zipcon.net/~tkc/neallegend.html

Drinking with Neal and Jack = http://www.zipcon.net/~tkc/drinkingdenver.htm

Tom Christopher's website (Neal Cassady biographer) http://www.tomchristopher.com/index.php?op=home/Beat%20Generation Visit his Beatnik link.

Images of Neal Cassady Book Covers put together by Dave Moore = http://mysite.orange.co.uk/holmes-books/cassady.html

Carolyn Cassady

Off The Road - Twenty years with Cassady Kerouac and Ginsberg

by Carolyn Cassady

Carolyn Cassady was born in Michigan in 1923, and eight years later moved to Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, and later became increasingly involved in set and costume design, graduating MA in Fine Arts and Theater Arts from the University of Denver. While at Denver, she met Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and in 1948 she and Cassady married in San Francisco. They had three children. Falling in love with Neal plunged Carolyn into a strange and unknown world, far from her conventional middle-class upbringing. Almost every value and social convention she had been brought up to respect was to be irrevocably and painfully challenged, yet she was unable to run away. Compelled to stay with an incompatible partner she still loved, Carolyn’s attempts to adjust to new ways of living and to form new attitudes to her life are the basis of her deeply moving story. Available through http://www.blackspringpress.co.uk/books/otr.html

And see a review here = http://www.newstatesman.com/200707050047

Interview with Carolyn Cassady and Kerouac essay = www.americanlegends.com

JAMI CASSADY IN THE NEWS IN SANTA CRUZ - Jami Cassady, youngest daughter of Neal and Carolyn Cassady, was recently interviewed by her local paper. Some real insights! Here's a link = http://www.santacruzlive.com/ex/content/view/4653/126/

John Cassady's website = http://www.johnallencassady.com/

Other Good Authors and People

David Amram

David Amram = www.davidamram.com

David Amram = http://www.fmp.com/amram

Interview with David Amram (aka Pops) = http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=amram.html

David Amram booking infomation = http://redhotpromotions.us/id25.htm

Ken Babbs - one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters

And he also has a poem about Neal Cassady on his site (Neal was the driver of the bus Further = http://www.skypilotclub.com/

Richard Brautigan

The Brautigan Pages = http://www.riza.com/richard/

The Brautigan papers at Bancroft Library = http://www.oac.cdlib.org:28008/dynaweb/ead/berkeley/bancroft/brautiga/

Intro to Brautigan = http://www.spydersempire.com/empirezine/features/march/brau-intro.htm

City Lights Bookstore

News from City Lights Booksellers = http://www.citylights.com

John Clellon Holmes - Images of his book covers = http://mysite.orange.co.uk/holmes-books/index.html

Ken Kesey

Key-Z Productions, Ken Kesey stuff for sale = http://www.key-z.com/

Tom Robbins

DHARMA beat's Tom Robbins page = Tom Robbins, Just Another Roadside Attraction

Tom Robbins = http://www.rain.org/~da5e/tom_robbins.html

Hunter Thompson, the original Gonzo Writer =

The great Thompson Hunt = http://www.gonzo.org/

Article by Anita Thompson = http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=thompson/060221

HST says Goodbye to Nixon = http://www.counterpunch.org/thompson02212005.html

Official Ralph Steadman site = http://www.ralphsteadman.com/

Kurt Vonnegut: Author of Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle and more.

The Wampeter of our Karass is smiling down upon us from heaven. [November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007]

DHARMA beat's Tribute to Vonnegut - http://www.wordsareimportant.com/kurtvonnegut.htm

The Vonnegut Web: http://www.vonnegutweb.com/

See Vonnegut's art at www.vonnegut.com which he did in conjunction with Joe Petro.

Other Notables

Al Aronowitz = http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/index.htm - Note: Unfortunately, August 2005 saw the passing of Al Aronowitz, the blacklisted writer.

Vincent Balestri, who did the Kerouac play = www.remembertheatre.org

Mick Cusimano - creator of Chicken Man, a cartoonist with a great creative/poetic/beat bend - http://mcusiman.tripod.com/beat.html

Ed Adler - author of Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings of Jack Kerouac is a painter with a great website that show his fantastic art = www.edadler.com

Larry Keenan (photographer of the Beats) = http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/keenan/

Kei from Tokyo, poetry web site = www.alisatan.com

Arthur & Kit Knight's web site = http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/2188

Michael McClure's literary homepage is at =
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mcclure.htm

Official website of Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek. Lots of good stuff there - including info about & news pertaining to Michael, info on his books, CDs, & videos. Also writings & photos by & of his friends (Diane di Prima, Jack Foley, Rebecca Solnit, Larry Keenan, etc. Rothenberg & Kyger coming soon.) = http://McClure-Manzarek.com

Jack Micheline Official Homepage = http://www.jackmicheline.com

Henry Miller, information on an unconventional film about Henry Miller in relation to culture, spirituality, sexuality, and politics = http://www.mediarights.org/film/henry_and_dovid_sex_god_and_revolution

see also = http://www.ufotv.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?

Charles Plymell = http://www.buchenroth.com/cplymell.htmlScreen=PROD&Product_Code=K463&Category_Code=New-Releases&Product_Count=12

Hunter Thompson = http://www.tekknowledge.com/gonzo/

Ann Waldman = http://www.poetspath.com/apg/apgls02_03.html

Ron Whitehead, publisher of "Published In Heaven" poetry series = www.tappingmyownphone.com

Ron also has some poems and other writings here = http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/writings/s4jk.php

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Other links to sites that are related to the beats in some way, or maybe not. But it still should be good so check it out!

Art - Poetry- Music- Community in Venice, CA. Love-sharin' beat-trippin' word-slinging and good times are here again! There's much to share: Diles Mavis Q'tet is back with new guests and our local heroes. Bring your smilin' faces and hearts lit up with knowin the truth that sizzles in the air between the one-ee-and-a ... = http://mosaic.lpbn.org/

A new website out of the UK that sounds and talks like the beats. They take a little bit of this and a little bit of that and bring it all together for you. This is worth checking out = http://the-beat.co.uk

"Voyager: An American Prayer" would never have been published were it not for Jack & On the Road = http://www.brendangranahan.com

"Eel Pie Dharma" = http://www.eelpie.org/epd.htm

haven't checked this out, maybe you should = http://www.beat-route-book.com

Features movies about PAUL BOWLES: THE COMPLETE OUTSIDER and HALFMOON = http://www.firstrunfeatures.com

Massachusetts writers website = www.northgroundpress.com

FROM WOODSTOCK TO THE WORLD: = http://www.radiowoodstock.com

Burrough's site? = http://www.geocities.com/joeyjojojrshibadoo/burroughs.html

Writer's World is an internet site that is dedicated to writers and literary enthusiasts of all genres. You can check our page out at = http://www.writersworld.net

Poetry Tonight at = http://www.poetrytonight.com

A Beat/Slacker transgenerational meeting of minds = http://www.shambhalasun.com/beat.html

Dharma Brats = http://www.shambhalasun.com/dharmabrats.html

Steve Silberman's How Beat was born = http://ezone.org/ez/e2/articles/digaman.html

Beat Literature good ol' Alex Howard = http://www.bibd.appstate.edu/~kh14586/links/beats/

The Beat Generation: Audio and Video Material = http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/BeatGen.html

The Only People For Him = http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/issues/96aug/jackk/jackk.htm

Biography's Top 10 List-Jack Kerouac = http://www.biography.com/read/reviews/jackk.html

The Garden of Forking Paths: Green = http://users.aol.com/paulcllins/resindex.html

KEROUAC TRIBUTE-LA TIMES REVIEW = http://www.viperroom.com/Kerouactimes.html

SPRING 95 = http://www.mainelink.net/~writer/cafe_html/spring_95/spring.html

Kerouac Thesis = http://www.umit.maine.edu/~Christopher_Smith

One of Jim Brodey's several homages to Kerouac, from Heart of the Breath: http://hardpress.com/newhp/catalog/brodey_ex2.html

Clark Coolidge's Doin' the Jack Walk, from Lowell Connector: Lines and Shotsfrom Kerouac's Town: http://hardpress.com/newhp/catalog/lowell_ex.html

The site is for an anthology, WHAT BOOK!? BUDDHA POEMS FROM BEAT TO HIPHOP = http://word.to/beats.html

The Way of the Dream Catcher: Spirit Lessons with Robert Lax: Poet, Peacemaker, Sage A book by S.T. Georgiou. Conversations with Robert Lax, friend of Thomas Merton = www.novalis.ca

Dialogues with My Self - Poems by Saikat Mondal, published by Cader Books. The author pens his observations of life and the people around him. = www.cader.com

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Book stores/dealers that do the beats

DHARMA beat's used Kerouac, beat, and other books rare and out of print - buy and sell = http://www.wordsareimportant.com/books.htm

City Lights Booksellers and Publishers = http://www.citylights.com/

Beat Books (one of the original beat dealers out of Berkeley) = http://members.aol.com/beatshops/beatcat.html

Andrew Sclanders (in the UK), beat and counter-culture books (great catalog) = www.beatbooks.com

Red Snapper books, UK (I don't know where he gets all these great books) = www.redsnapperbooks.com

1 800 KEROUAC - Beat Generation Catalog = http://www.kerouac.com/

Beat Books and Poetry List in the UK- General Beat Culture = http://www.compendium-books.com/beat/beatnew.htm

Essential Media = http://www.essentialmedia.com

water row books = http://www.waterrowbooks.com

About Allen Ginsberg, Open Book Systems = http://www.obs-europa.de/obs/english/books/ginsberg/ata.htm

synaethesia press = http://www.synaethesia.com

A new store in Canada specializing in the beats and alternative literature = http://www.blacksheepbooks.com

Empty Mirror Books: The Beat Generation and Beyond (including Larry Keenan photos)= www.emptymirrorbooks.com

Miscellaneous Links - not beat related

My name is Eddie Alfaro. I am an artist who would like to show you my work. I have constructed a website to display it. The address is = http://www.rab1501.com

Savage Vibes, it's website is = http://www.savagevibes.com

Images of David Goodis Book Covers = http://mysite.orange.co.uk/david-goodis-books/index.html

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