The Original Beat
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 […]