The Origins Of The Beat Generation
January, 1989
The Origins of the Beat GenerationThis Article necessarily'll have to be about myself. I'm going all out.That nutty picture of me on the cover of On the Road results from the fact that I had just gotten down from a high mountain where I'd been for two months completely alone and usually I was in the habit of combing my hair of course because you have to get rides on the highway and all that and you usually want girls to look at you as though you were a man and not a wild beast but my poet friend...