The companion volume to The Portable Beat Reader brings together more than seventy-five reviews, memoirs, poems, essays, and sketches that capture the beliefs, controversies, and credos of the Beat Generation writers of the 1950s, offering profiles of all major Beat figures, as well as critical commentaries by writers and critics. Original.

Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?

Literature & Fiction

Charters, Ann

United States

Penguin??Books

From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America’s most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade. The Portable Sixties Reader is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Women’s movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, “Elegies for the Sixties,” offers tributes to ten figures whose lives—and deaths—captured the spirit of the decade. Contributors include: Edward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim O’Brien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics

Williams, Bert, -- 1874-1922. African American entertainers -- Biography.

Nobody, The Story Of Bert Williams

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Da Capo Press

The Story of Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction/Instructors Manual

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

St Martins Pr

This alphabetically arranged anthology presents 40 major authors in depth through 93 stories and 43 commentaries on the stories by the writers themselves.

Major Writers of Short Fiction: Stories and Commentaries

Literary

Bedford/St.Martin's

The Story and Its Writer, Compact 4th Edition: Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom and knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. For those who want a smaller, less expensive anthology, the compact edition of The Story and Its Writer is the most comprehensive, diverse - the best-selling - introduction to fiction available, notable for its student appeal as well as its quality and range. To complement the stories, Charters includes her lasting innovation: an array of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and traditions of fiction. For in-depth, illustrated studies of particular writers, her Casebooks provide unparalleled opportunities for discussion and writing. For a shorter, more affordable option, the compact edition offers all the editorial features of the full edition with about half the stories and commentaries.

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction

History & Criticism

Bedford/St.Martins

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.

Kerouac: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St. Martin's: Griffin

Uniquely emphasizing how writers of fiction, poetry, and drama talk about what they do, this introduction to literature lets the words of writers guide students in their exploration of the many ways to read, think, and write about literature.

Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Charters, Samuel

This groundbreaking anthology is the first to offer a truly inclusive survey of the American short story along with a unique array of major critical statements and commentaries by the writers themselves.

The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology

Uniquely emphasizing how writers of fiction, poetry, and drama talk about what they do, this introduction to literature lets the words of writers guide students in their exploration of the many ways to read, think, and write about literature.

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Books by Charters, Ann

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Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?

The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics)

Nobody, The Story Of Bert Williams

The Story of Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction/Instructors Manual

Major Writers of Short Fiction: Stories and Commentaries

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction

Kerouac: A Biography

Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology

Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama