"NYT: The writers of the Beat Generation had the good fortune to give themselves a name and to write extensively about their lives, in novels like Jack Kerouac’s 'On the Road' and William Burroughs’s 'Junkie,' in poems like Allen Ginsberg’s 'Howl' and, later, in memoirs like Joyce Johnson’s 'Minor Characters' and Hettie Jones’s 'How I Became Hettie Jones.' Jones once said they couldn’t be a generation because they could all fit in her living room, but in the popular imagination they were much more than the sum of their body parts or writings. They were a brand."
NYT: The Mad Ones
amazon: The Beats: A Graphic History
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