They Live and Breathe Outside the Academy

A strong new issue of Beat Scene has just arrived from the U.K. Although the magazine is primarily devoted to the leading lights of the Beat Generation writers — Jack Kerouac, pictured below, most of all — the magazine covers many who were contemporaneous but not really part of their circle, as well as others who preceded them. Nor does it stint on writers who have followed in their wake. The unifying element that draws the magazine’s interest seems to be that they lived and breathed and created their work outside the academy. And while many of their books have now been accepted into the canon, they are hardly academic.

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