The Beat Generation
An introduction to members of the Beat Generation for Tytell came through her husband, John, whose book Naked Angels was the first major study of the literary phenomenon and its authors. Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, and John Clellon Holmes, have all been subjects of Tytell, documenting the later years of the writers and their continuing relevance to American culture.
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Famous quotes containing the words beat and/or generation:
“A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again and look with terror at the wall, until one day he begins afresh to beat his head against it; and once again he will faint. And so on endlessly and without hope. One day he will wake up on the other side of the wall.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)