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The last 12 months: The very best of Beat

Know the score: R&BG's book reviews re-visited

Book review #20: Material Wealth

Rock Stories #5: Jerry Garcia & John Allen Cassady

Biography delay? Author explains Kerouac wait

Correspondence #31: Steven Taylor

Book review #19: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

McClure reads but Dead go missing

'Dear R&BG': The first 30 letters

Dylan to accept Beat laureateship?

Book review #18: The Many Worlds of David Amram

Rock Stories #4: Elvin Bishop & John Allen Cassady

Correspondence #30: Jonah Raskin

Biographical Details #2: Allen Ginsberg by Jonah Raskin

Interview #18: Brian Patten

Book review #17: The Downtown Pop Underground

Rock Stories #3: Billy Bragg & Eliot Katz

CD review #1: How I Learned to Love the Freaks

Biographical Details #1: Jack Kerouac by Steve Turner

Rock Stories #2: Joe Ely & Allan Jones

Interview #17: C.J. Stone

Missing link? Beat, Ed Sanders and the Washington march

City Lights, cameras, action?

Beat Meetings #12: Simon Warner & David Amram

A Gary Snyder tribute: Wang Ping

Rock Stories #1: Carlos Santana & John Allen Cassady

Meeting McClure and Morrison: Beat dreams & a mescaline memory

Beat Meetings #11: Wang Ping & Gary Snyder

Joining the Dot! Museum's record appeal pays off

Correspondence #29: Jean-Marc Montera

Robbie's key part in Beat group shoot

Grimes' times: Singer's Beat and jazz journey

Close encounters of the Beat kind

Beat Meetings #10: Thomas Antonic & ruth weiss

Beat Soundtrack #29: Joe Kidd

Weine, Ginsberg & madness: Raskin responds

Inspired by madness? Beat, rock and the unstable mind

'My Talk with Bob Dylan Last Night' by Ron Whitehead

Beat Meetings #9: Mark Bliesener & William S. Burroughs

Kicks Joy Darkness: The making of a Kerouac classic

Bells chime 70 for City Lights

Book review #16: Bob Dylan in Minnesota

Correspondence #28: Eliot Katz

Radio review #2: Controversies

Poets' friendship forged at Brit trad jazz riot

Two years on: Testimonials #2

Two years on: Testimonials #1

Correspondence #27: Steven Taylor

Burroughs' drug debut 70 years on

Beat Meetings #8: John Allen Cassady & Allen Ginsberg

Rock Critics seeks heart of the Beat

The trials of teenhood #2: Peter Everett

Journal plots green scheme but native son not forgotten

Correspondence #26: Eliot Katz

Beat Meetings #7: A. Robert Lee & Ted Joans

Exhibition #2: Tuli & Samara Kupferberg

Howling on: Beckett's Ginsberg homage

Up in the clouds: Brown's dream lineup

Obituary #4: Jay Jeff Jones

Pete Brown: Superstar poet and Cream of the crop

Correspondence #25: David Amram

Correspondence #24: Tony Flynn

Beat Meetings #6: Heath Common & William S. Burroughs

Twenty vision: SF institution’s two-decade journey

Beat Meetings #5: Jonah Raskin & Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The trials of teenhood #1: Peter Everett

Carolyn Cassady at 100 #3: Simon Warner

Carolyn Cassady at 100 #2: Mark Bliesener

Carolyn Cassady at 100 #1: David Amram

Beat Meetings #4: Gottfried Distl & Ed Sanders

Old Bull Lee and all that jazz

When rock met writing: Lit concerts a quarter century on

Party like it's 1973! A celebration chez Cassady

Sweet little 16? Charting our subcultural lives

Hive mined: A bitter-sweet play, a kitchen sink film and a pop classic

Beat Meetings #3: Cathy Cassady & Allen Ginsberg

Correspondence #23: Steve Turner

Beat, Beetles, Beatles: Royston Ellis dead at 82

Speech bubbles: Peace poet's film tribute

The punk with a PhD

Book review #15: False Prophet

Kerouac'n'roll! Book birthday at the double

What's the word? Looks like a billion…

Beat Meetings #2: Steve Turner & Herbert Huncke

Beat Soundtrack #28: Jim Cohn

How bard of the Beat put pen to paper to produce Jack-inspired classic

Correspondence #22: David Buckley

Get the Fugs out

Recent posts: A quick round-up #2

Live review #3: Oliver James Lomax

Beat Meetings #1: Steven Taylor & Gregory Corso

God of gonzo now long gone but his art lives on

Lomax song haul meets double Dylan

Raskin's 25th anniversary tribute to Ginsberg

Correspondence #21: Charles Shuttleworth

Correspondence #20: Jim Cohn

Book review #14: From the Underground

Beckett's live tape: London show released

The 1975: That name again!

Don’t get Angry?: Check the background music

An Englishman in New York

Correspondence #19: Don Michael Sampson

Beat Soundtrack #27: David Holzer

The 1975: Back to my old school

Correspondence #18: Charles Shuttleworth

Correspondence #17: Steven Taylor

Book review #13: Desolation Peak

Interview #16: Ramzy Alwakeel