It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The letters in this volume, written between 1940, when Kerouac was a freshman at college, and 1956, immediately before h[...]

Organized thematically, this outstanding anthology provides an intriguing overview of the turbulent decade of the 1960s in more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by Edward Abbey, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Timothy Leary, Gloria Steinem, Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Alice Wa[...]

Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom and knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Instructors look forward to every new edition of her bestselling anthology to s[...]

In this newly rediscovered memoir, Bonnie Bremser, ex-wife of Beat-poet Ray Bremser, chronicles her life on the run from the law in the early Sixties. When Ray fled to Mexico in 1961 to avoid imprisonment for armed robbery, a crime he claimed he did not commit, Bonnie followed with their baby daught[...]