Days [ ) Know | William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997
Drive-in theater, Chicago, 1951 “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.A psychotic is a guy...
Beat Generation
Paper airplanes | Harry Smith, New York, 1960s
Harry Everett Smith (1923 – 1991) was an American polymath, who was credited variously as an artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian,...
Alphabetarion # Overlap | Ken Kesey, 1964
Sigmar Polke, Spiderman, 1971-74 "Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither...
Days [ ) Permutations | Diane di Prima, 1969
Jindřich Štreit “There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and...
Don’t Let That Horse | A poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958
Marc Chagall, Equestrienne, 1931 Don’t let that horseeat that violincried Chagall’s mother But hekept right onpainting And became famous And...
The Beat Generation | Photos by Larry Fink, 1958
Larry Fink, 1958 Larry Fink, 1958 Larry Fink, 1958 Larry Fink, 1958 Larry Fink, 1958 Larry Fink, 1958 Larry Fink,...
The Book & the Movie: Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs, 1959 / David Cronenberg, 1991
David Cronenberg, Naked Lunch, 1991 “You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end....
Alphabetarion # Scribble | Jack Kerouac, 1957
Jack Kerouac, untitled "I spent countless rainy hours drinking coffee and scribbling." Jack Kerouac, On the road, 1957
Song | A poem by Allen Ginsberg, 1954
Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco, 1959 . The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the...