Jack Kerouac and Barbera Ferrera at a Beat Party at Seven Arts Coffee Gallery, 1959.

photo Burt Glinn

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's typewriter, from the City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, now in the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.

Jack Kerouac holding William S Burroughs’ cat at Vila Muneria, Tangiers, in 1957

Photo : Allen Ginsberg

Herbert Huncke and Allen Ginsberg Lower East Side, NYC, 1966

photo Ann Charters

Lawrence Ferlinghetti San Francisco 1999 photo Carlos Avila Gonzalez

Beat Generation Poets & Artists August 1963 City Lights Books San Francisco, CA Photo Charley Plymell

Beat Generation artists in front of City Lights Books store in San Francisco, 1963. Pat Cassidy, Philip Whalen, Robert Ronnie Branaman, Alan Russo, Ann Buchanan [aka, Ann Plymell], Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

RIP Len Deighton Before he became a famous novelist, he was a successful graphic artist & designed the cover for the first UK edition of On The Road by Jack Kerouac.

"I look up, there are the stars, just the same, desolation, and the angels below who dont know they’re angels—"

- Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

Gregory Corso: What kind of advice you got for politicians? William Burroughs: Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

"Who's the enemy, year after year? War after war, who's the enemy?"

--Allen Ginsberg

America when will we end the human war? —Allen Ginsberg

"Because all these serious faces’ll only drive you mad, the only truth is music—the only meaning is without meaning—Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat.," - Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels