Beat Generation Links
I recommend the following links if you are interested in The Beat Generation or if you are looking for biographic information or an overview:
One of the best sites on the net - quite extensive. Skip Wikipedia and start here.
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/
Interesting site keeping tabs on the gentrification of New York city. Painful to look at because of the bad news it shares, but outstanding record preserving the history and destruction of New York.
Excellent and informative site.
This site has a great Beat section offering proper bios of Beat Generation writers and icons. It is also a great site to find Beat Generation books.
A few photographs of the Beats from back in the day by Fred W. McDarrah.
Some of the photographs were taken in buildings which I have photographed and posted on this site.
Landmark Bookstore in San Francisco, partly owned by the renowned Beat poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
This is a great site by the family of Neal Cassady. It includes some great photographs, stories and information on Cassady. It also attempts to distinguish fact from myth around him.
An interesting site with wonderful photographs of Neal Cassady’s old stomping grounds in Denver. The owner has links to other Beat related photographs as well.
Every year around September or October there is a Kerouac festival in his home town of Lowell, Mass. I have been trying to go for the last couple of years but something always seems to get in the way. This website has details of the festivals as well as other Kerouac related events / information in Lowell.
Google Maps - Street View Option
Search for “NYC” and then select the “Street view” option on the map. The streets that turn to blue allow you to get a view of street level. From there you can do a walking tour of all of Manhattan. This is incredible! It also helped me verify a few of the photos I took which I later forgot where they were taken.
