The Typewriter Is Holy The Complete,

In This Hugely Entertaining Work, Bill Morgan, the country's leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beat writers, narrates their history, tracing their origins in the 1940s to their influence on the social upheavals of the 1960s.

Bill Morgan is the author and editor of more than a dozen books about the Beat writers. He lives in Vermont.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Friendship and Murder	p. 1
The Lumpen World	p. 13
The Adonis of Denver	p. 24
Insanity	p. 34
The Subterraneans	p. 45
Literary Lives	p. 58
The Name of a Generation	p. 72
To the West Coast	p. 81
Nightmare of Moloch	p. 91
The Six Gallery	p. 101
Desolation and Loneliness	p. 111
Censorship and Vindication	p. 122
Fame	p. 133
The Threads Loosen	p. 148
The Circle Widens	p. 158
Cut-ups	p. 168
Bitter Fruits	p. 180
Setting the Global Stage	p. 192
A Culture Turned Upside Down	p. 201
The Sixties	p. 214
The End of the Road	p. 226
Aftermath	p. 231
Respectability	p. 238
Acceptance	p. 244
Postscript	p. 247
Source Notes	p. 251
Selected Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 275
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The Typewriter Is Holy The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation

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