Lou Reed's goal was to be somewhere near as achieved or aspirational as these four authors, looking to the Beat Generation ...

Patti Smith paints a mesmerising picture of her relationship to Robert Mapplethorpe, a coming-of-age story and an ode to a bygone New York City ...

William S. Burroughs, also known as William Seward Burroughs ... and medical school in Vienna. Among his peers were Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He received major accolades such as the American ...

The 1950s saw the arrival of the Beatnik generation with writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac alongside the rise of the American Civil Rights movement and of blues music.

In the mid forties and fifties, Paul Bowles, Peter Orlovesky, Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs stayed in the Northern city, writing, translating and enjoying what Tangier ...

A new exhibition series rejects the question of whether or not we should be doing drugs, and instead tries to understand why, and how, we always have.

Willis was also a notorious party animal whose favourite playmates included Mick Jagger, William Burroughs and Yves Saint ...

The term “hipster” is elusive and frequently wielded as an insult, yet it has a rich history. The first hipsters were young ...

Later, Thiel wandered to New York City where he met many Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and members of Andy Warhol’s clan. He participated in the famous “Stonewall Riots” from ...