The Beats’ reputation is one rooted in inauspicious circumstances: from William S. Burroughs accidentally shooting his wife in a game of William Tell in Mexico, to jail time for Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac and others, not to mention unnumerable stints in psychiatric hospitals. And yet, it was perhaps because of their audacious lives that the Beats were able to open up a radical new sphere, indelibly altering the global view of music, literature and the arts for future…
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