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Article: AMERICAN SCREAM: ALLEN GINSBERG'S HOWL AND THE MAKING OF THE BEAT GENERATION/WHEN I WAS COOL/MOVE UNDERGROUND
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- The Village Voice
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- June 2, 2004
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AMERICAN SCREAM: ALLEN GINSBERG'S HOWL AND THE MAKING OF THE BEAT GENERATION By Jonah Raskin California, 295 pp. $24.95
WHEN I WAS COOL By Sam Kashner HarperCollins, 318 pp. $25.95
MOVE UNDERGROUND By Nick Mamatas Nightshade, 185 pp. $25
BEAT HAPPENING
Adrift in the valley of lost men, or Ph'nglui mglw'nath Jack Kerouac wagn'nagl fhtagn!
The legend of the Beats pivots on one of the counterculture's hoariest cliches: Sensitive, creative misfits-Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and their muse and frequent bed-warmer, Neal Cassady-are reluctantly seduced by the mainstream values they abhor, and prove too fragile to resist the corrosive fame that comes with the deal. Madness, ...