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Meet the Beats: the beginning of the "Beat Generation." Beatnik Fashion, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac Quotes, September First, Beat Poetry, William Burroughs, Beatnik Style, William S Burroughs, Jacques Demy

The following article is from the book Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader. The Beats were America's first hipsters. But what were they, like, really about, man? THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICA One night in 1948, two students at new York's Columbia University, John Clellon Holmes and Jack Kerouac, were hanging out talking about what they thought was wrong with the modern world -the constant threat of nuclear war, the hollowness of suburbia, and the stifling academic mainstream. At one point…

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