R&BG bookshelf expands
Forty titles now in our archive
HERE AT Rock and the Beat Generation we have just presented our fortieth book review. Below is a reminder of all the titles we have considered and critiqued since publication commenced in 2021. All notices are by Simon Warner, R&BG Founding Editor, except where noted. Dates recorded are when the write-ups first appeared. Do check them out in our ever-expanding archive of articles…
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles, September 21st, 2021
Beat Blues: San Francisco, 1955 by Jonah Raskin, September 27th, 2021
Alternative Voices: 1980s Punk San Francisco by Jeanne Hansen and Jonah Raskin, October 7th, 2021
Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of a Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones, February 18th, 2022
Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God by Jon Stewart, March 3rd, 2022
The ‘Freak Scene Dream’ trilogy by Michael Goldberg, April 21st, 2022
Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles by Alex Harvey, July 15th, 2022
Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose, August 8th, 2022
Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans by K.G. Miles and Jeff Towns, August 27th, 2022
Lyon Street by Marc Zegans, October 2nd, 2022
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, November 9th, 2022
Bob Dylan in the Big Apple: Troubadour Tales of New York by K.G. Miles, November 26th, 2022
Jack Kerouac: Desolation Peak Collected Writings by Charles Shuttleworth, January 8th, 2023
From the Underground: Multimedia Art, Performances, Beat Poetry, Pop Stories 1972-2022 by Gottfried Distl, February 12th, 2023
False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground by Steven Taylor, March 27th, 2023
Bob Dylan in Minnesota: Troubadour Tales from Duluth, Hibbing and Dinkytown by K.G. Miles, July 4th, 2023
The Downtown Pop Underground by Kembrew McLeod, October 20th, 2023
The Many Worlds of David Amram: Renaissance Man of American Music, ed. by Dean Birkenkamp, November 11th, 2023
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed (Reviewed by STEVEN TAYLOR), November 29th, 2023
Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Pat Thomas (Reviewed by JONAH RASKIN), December 15th, 2023
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock‘n’Roll by Casey Rae, January 14th, 2024
Corso: Ten Times a Poet, ed. by Leon Horton with Michelle Mcdannold (Reviewed by STEVEN TAYLOR), April 15th, 2024
The Life and Times of Ralph J. Gleason by Don Armstrong (Reviewed by JONAH RASKIN), May 6th, 2024
The Beats: Authorships, Legacies by A. Robert Lee, May 17th, 2024
Over the Stage of Kansas by Charles Plymell (Reviewed by JONAH RASKIN), June 18th, 2024
Sonic Life by Thurston Moore, June 29th, 2024
Rockin’ the Kremlin by David Junk with Fred Bronson (Reviewed by JONAH RASKIN), July 20th, 2024
Treasures for Heaven by Jim Cohn (Reviewed by MARC ZEGANS), August 3rd, 2024
Song to the Siren by Larry Beckett (Reviewed by JONAH RASKIN), August 17th, 2024
Bop Apocalypse by Martin Torgoff, August 31st, 2024
The Burroughs-Warhol Connection by Victor Bockris (Reviewed by JONAH RASKIN), October 1st, 2024
Talkin’ Greenwich Village by David Browne, October 14th, 2024
Live Dead by John Brackett (Reviewed by BRIAN HASSETT), October 25th, 2024
Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac, edited by Steven Belletto (Reviewed by JIM COHN), November 1st, 2024
Under a Rock by Chris Stein (Reviewed by STEVEN TAYLOR), November 17th, 2024
Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald, December 11th, 2024
Rethinking Kerouac, edited by Erik Mortenson and Tomasz Sawczuk (Reviewed by JONAH RASKIN), January 2nd, 2025
One Shot by Oliver Harris, February 7th, 2025
Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers (Reviewed by NANCY M. GRACE), February 12th, 2025
The Angry Years by Colin Wilson, February 22nd, 2025