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The Letters | Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg | Granta Magazine

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‘Your isolation like mine is sad and frightful mainly the blind alleys of money and love but life is not over, and much to be written.’ Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, central figures of the Beat generation, were social and literary pioneers, experimenting tirelessly with literature, drugs and sexuality. Ginsberg’s Howl (1956) and Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) inspired a generation of youth culture in mid-twentieth-century America, and liberalised permanently what could and could not be published. Below are four letters selected from the pair’s extensive correspondence. Read an interview with Bill Morgan, one of the editors of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters. Jack Kerouac [New York, New York] to Allen Ginsberg [n.p., San Jose, California?] ca. late May 1954 May Dear Allen, Please be reassured, angel, I t

The Letters | Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg | Granta Magazine Skip to main content Kerouac/Ginsberg: The Letters Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac ‘Your isolation like mine is sad and frightful mainly the blind alleys of money and love but life is not over, and much to be written.’ Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, central figures of the Beat generation, were social and literary pioneers, experimenting tirelessly with literature, drugs and sexuality. Ginsberg’s Howl (1956) and Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) inspired a generation of youth culture in mid-twentieth-century America, and liberalised per

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