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Best Beats Bibliography

If you want to read books by or about these authors here is a select list.

Bukowski

• "Post Office"
• "Factotum"

Burroughs

• Last Words of Dutch Schultz
• Ghost of Chance
• Naked Lunch
• Thanksgiving (in Tornado Alley)
• The Place of Dead Roads

Corso

• Gasoline

Ginsberg

• Howl and other poems

Kerouac

• On the Road
• Dharma Bums
• Big Sur
• Vanity of Duluoz
• The Railroad Earth (in Lonesome Traveller)

Hunter S. Thompson

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Reference

Beats in general

• Off the Road - Carolyn Cassady
• Paris Review Interview - Beat Writers at work (various - Harvill)
• This is the Beat Generation - James Campbell
• Beat Generation (photos) - Fred & Gloria McDarrah

Jack Kerouac

• Subterranean Kerouac - Ellis Amburn
• Jack's Book - Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee
• Jack Kerouac, a Hamlyn History - David Sandison
• Kerouac, a biography - Anne Charters

William Burroughs

• Conversations with William S Burroughs - edited by Allen Hibbard

Charles Bukowski

• The Buk Book - Jim Christy
• Bukowski in Pictures - Edited by Howard Sounes
• Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life - Howard Sounes

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