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Virtual Lobby Display: The Beat Generation

On the Web

An Introduction to the Beat Poets (Poetry Foundation)
Where to Start with the Beat Generation (New York Public Library)
Allen Ginsberg's Definition of the Beat Generation (Lit Hub)
"The Cut Up Method" by William S. Burroughs (University of Pennsylvania Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing)
"Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" by Jack Kerouac (Language is a Virus)
Shig Murao: The Enigmatic Soul of City Lights and the San Francisco Beat Scene (Internet Archive; originally University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library)
The Search for Big Brown (WNYC, New York Public Radio)