An interview about the Beat Generation

with Allen Ginsberg, George Herms, Nat Hentoff and Steven Watson
in Current Affairs, Books
on Wednesday, November 29, 1995 * * * * *

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A conversation with Allen Ginsberg, the poet who helped to shape the Beat Generation. He is joined by Steven Watson, author of "The Birth of the Beat Generation", Nat Hentoff, a columnist at "The Village Voice", and George Herms, the California artist whose art exemplified the Beat aesthetic. The group reflects on the importance of the Beat Generation in American History.

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Nat Hentoff
Jack Kerouac
Steven Watson
Thelonius Monk
George Herms
William Burroughs
Allen Ginsberg
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