Though he never published a book during his life, Neal Cassady was one of the main inspirations for the Beat Generation. He's ...

The R.E.M. frontman performed a cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" in a rare solo appearance at Carnegie ...

Bands including the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane played and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti made appearances. A parachuter—rumored to be famous chemist Owsley Stanley ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital. In the late 1940s ...

Style, Vol. 46, No. 1, Public Discourse, Forms, Plots, and Consciousness (Spring 2012), pp. 89-94 (6 pages) In “Howl” Ginsberg places his own revolutionary poetry of suffering—his portrayal of outcast ...

Annie Zaidi's compulsively readable short novel ‘The Comeback’ forces us to take a good long look at our dormant friendships ...

He met Allen Ginsberg in Manhattan when both were briefly checked into Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute. He built musical instruments for the avant-garde composer Harry Partch.

Michael Stipe, Jackson Browne, Pattie Smith, Orville Peck, and more performed at the 2025 Tibet House Benefit Concert at ...