Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jami Cassady holds the book "The Joan Anderson Letter: The Holy Grail of the Beat Generation," in her home in Santa Cruz on Dec. 8 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... He only lived there for a year, but Beat Generation muse Neal Cassady left his mark on 2558 Champa St. in Denver. The 400-square-foot building, sandwiched ...

Neal Cassady, inspiration for the Beat Generation, was one of the most powerful literary and pop-culture figures to emerge in the twentieth century. He spent most of his early life in Denver, yet few ...

Octogenarian musician/musicologist David Amram’s ties to the Beats hold strong, especially in San Francisco, where jazz and poetry intersected, and in some ways, he’s one of the last grand old men of ...

Celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of Bay Area icon Neal Cassady on Jan. 17 at the Berkeley Art House is going to be a psychedelically tinged evening of creatives, musicians, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For nearly 30 years, John Hayden and Keith Pryor have lived a block away from a small structure with boarded-up windows, crumbling brick and a link to the ...

Neal Cassady won’t go away. The wild young man dashing madly down the highways of experience, liberated from conventional restraints and searching for sex and salvation in the American night, sent ...

Readers of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968) will no doubt recognize the name 'Ken Babbs.' Something of an operations guru to the main idea man of the Merry ...

This in-depth biography--the first to explore the ups and downs of Neal Cassady--takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

Historian Ramirez debuts with an eye-opening revisitation of a little remembered and ignominious episode in U.S. history—the Hoover administration’s attempt to “cure” the Great Continue reading » The ...

Neal Cassady was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 ...