Cedar Bar Redux

The Beat Generation was a group of writers that came into being during the mid to late 40’s. The first few were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William S. Burroughs. The Beats approach to writing was very different that what most of America was used to, and they struggled for years to get published. A great example of this is Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. He wrote it in 1951 and it wasn’t published until 1957. The Beats wrote about real life. What you see, touch, feel and do. I guess you could cheaply say they wrote about sex, drugs, and rock n roll in the 50’s. To me they are so much more.