The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture

A potpourri of words, illustrations and photography, "Rolling Stone Book of the Beats" contains original and previously published essays by such writers as Patti Smith, Kurt Vonnegut, Jim Jarmusch, Hettie Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Joyce Johnson, Richard Hell, Johnny Depp, Mikal Gilmore, Ken Kesey and Lester Banks and some surprises. There will also be some rare pieces published in the late sixties and seventies in Rolling Stone magazine by Beats such as Burroughs, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, that have not been seen in the past 25-30 years.Holly George-Warren is the author of 'The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture', published 2000 under ISBN 9780786885428 and ISBN 0786885424.