TYTE

Twenty-nine years old with a less-than-healthy appetite for booze and a buzz, Bill lived in a messy rented room, sold his soul daily in a PR agency, and couldn't remember the name of the last woman he screwed. He was a disappointment to his family but indicative of his generation. That was until a �10 psychic and a hanging cat came along to save him. And her--the one whose name he remembered. This is a tale of redemption for Generation Y. Your generation....

The story and history of the Beats couldn't be found in the traditional libraries or archives of academic research. For preeminent historian of Beat culture John Tytell, it had to be found in the bars, towns, roads, and hangouts of these writers and figures. And, as Writing Beat demonstrates, the same techniques apply to new and future writers. Approaching the history of postwar twentieth-century American literature, and in particular the Beat literary...