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Article: The Beat Generation is Now About Everything.(Review)

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Steven Watson. 1995. The Birth of the Beat Generation. Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters 1944-1980. NewYork. Pantheon. $27.50 hc. 387 pp.

Lisa Phillips, ed. 1995. Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965. New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. $35.00 hc. 278 pp.

David Sterritt. 1998. Mad to be Saved. The Beats, the '50's, and Film. Carbondale. Southern Illinois University Press. $29.95 hc. 258 pp.

The Beat Generation is no longer about poetry. The Beat Generation is now about everything," says Gregory Corso, quoted in the margins of Steven Watson's The Birth of the Beat Generation. Corso's dictum sums up this book's raison d'etre as well as ...

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