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Read more...The Beat Museum on Wheels
Starting in August 2022, the Beat Museum on Wheels hit the road in celebration of Jack Kerouac's centennial. Read more about our adventures here!
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Read more...Banned Books Week: The Bonfire of Wilhelm Reich
In celebration of Banned Books Week, we’re excited to announce that the Beat Museum has recently acquired some 1950s publications from Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Institute Press, related to one of the most egregious cases of censorship in US history.
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Read more...Horst Spandler’s On the Road Collection Has Arrived
Trove of 100+ international editions of Kerouac's On the Road in dozens of languages arrives at the Beat Museum.
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Read more...UPDATE: Success! Please Help The Beat Museum Preserve This Extremely Rare Jack Kerouac LP
Who would ever have imagined that one of the rarest and most valuable record albums ever produced wasn’t recorded by a world-class musician or group—but by a novelist and poet? We’re not talking about a one-off, like the 2022 Ionic Original version of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” that sold at Christie’s for $1,769,508 last year, […]
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Read more...The Rumors of Our Demise are Greatly Exaggerated
The reality in SF is very different from what doomsayers from afar imagine.
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Read more...Ferlinghetti’s Handwritten Notes on Bad Reviews of Starting from San Francisco
First edition contained clippings of reviews, plus Lawrence's handwritten response.
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Read more...Painting of Bob Kaufman by George Pennewell Arrives at the Beat Museum
George Pennewell's exquisite rendering of Bob Kaufman, commissioned by Bob Gilman, finds a new home at the Beat Museum.
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Read more...Recap: Andy Romanoff & Wavy Gravy
It was a packed house on May 1st, as the Beat Museum hosted a very special evening with Andy Romanoff and Wavy Gravy. Pictures and Video here.
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Read more...Q&A from Our 20th Anniversary Party
Closing our 20th Anniversary event with a Q&A session.
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Read more...Farewell John Dorfner
by Jerry Cimino The Beat community lost a long time contributor and good friend this week. John Dorfner, of Raleigh, North Carolina, passed away after a long illness. John is survived by his wife Diane, daughters Jolie and Jamie, his grandchildren and other family members. My first contact with John was in 1991 when he […]
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Read more...Horst Spandler Donates ‘On the Road’ Collection
The poet ruth weiss was the first person to ever tell us about Horst Spandler. Soon after we moved to San Francisco in 2006, ruth mentioned she had this amazing friend who lived in Nuremberg, and that he was instrumental in the translation and publication of her poetry in Germany. Later I was told by […]
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Read more...Photos from Beat Not Beat Release
On Friday, January 13th, the Beat Museum hosted a reading/release event for the new Beat Not Beat anthology, edited by Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Alexis Rhone Fancher, and Kim Shuck. It was a packed house as contributors read selections from the book. A big thank you to all the readers, and to everyone who came […]
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