Beat Generation

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Carol Kauffman, “Bill Keck’s apartment,” a common hangout for Allen, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, 2nd Ave, Lower East Side, New York, Fall 1953, two years before she met and soon after married novelist, essayist, screenwriter, Terry Southern (Candy, Dr Strangelove). Her and Terry’s son Nile notes “I think my mom used to say that this was the morning Allen announced he was ‘going to California’. That trip to California would produce many of Allen’s most important early poems. (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

The Zodiac, 1959.

Beatniks at The Zodiac in San Diego 1959 August 21, 1959The film label reads ‘Beatniks.’ Unfortunately, there is no script in the files. It’s likely it was shot for stock footage. It’s an incredible...