Brenda Knight, author of “Memory Babes: Joyce Johnson and Beat Memoir,” describes Herbert Huncke (rhymes with “junky”) as “the most Beat of the entire group,” that group including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, Gregory Corso, and all those dubbed the Beat Generation. Why distinguish Huncke this way? Perhaps this stems from Kerouac’s admiration […]
In an article entitled “The Beats and Visual Culture,” David Sterrit groups Beat-related films into three categories: mass-audience movies and television shows, experimental works, and nonfiction works. The Beat Generation (1959) falls into the first category, including films that “explore Beat interests or represent Beat personalities,” but “show little understanding of Beat ideas, sympathy for […]
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