Composer David Amram, now 90, has worked with some of the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Monk, Gillespie and Mingus but his connection with ...
Lucien Carr wasn’t just the person who brought Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in New York, he also provided a “New Vision”—the ...
Spiraling down a silo of despair and drunkenness in the wake of his On The Road/Dharma Bums celebrity as ‘king of the Beats’, Jack Kerouac longed for a safe hav...
When the young Beat novelist (Kerouac) met the old bohemian poet (Bodenheim) in 1951, they were headed in opposite directions. Jack Kerouac was just lighting hi...
Denver photographer, street artist and gallery owner Mark Sink talks about the Andy Warhol he knew, the one without masks or disguises. He offers some surprisin...
The longtime publishing insider and agent Sterling Lord is still keeping the Beat flames burning for Kerouac, Ferlinghetti and Kesey. PKM's Benito Vila spent a ...
John Allen Cassady, now 67, reflects on growing up with the king of the counterculture, the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in On the Road, the driver of Kesey’...
Jello Biafra, David Amram, Heather Dalton, Nancy Weil and many others converged on Denver to honor the city's self-proclaimed "unnatural son," Neal Cassady, the...
Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books' covers are a delight, but the contents almost always get it wrong - especially when it comes to the Hippie...
In the spirit of the July 4th holiday, we look backward and forward simultaneously, with a little help from our friends at the New York Public Library and their...
Slim Gaillard and Lord Buckley helped the King of the Beats locate his inner hipster
Before the Beats jumped into the musical deep end, two stand-up jazz artis...
Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Patchen, Kandel, Waldman, Nordine and Young could have been a Supergroup
In 1948, Allen Ginsberg had what he called an “auditory halluci...
Ed Sanders of The Fugs bridges the gap between 3 very influential, uniquely American subcultures - Beats, hippies and punks
For the past four years, I have tau...
On The Road, published 60 years ago, freed young (and young at heart) Americans to trust their guts for the first time
As the anniversaries of major events pil...
