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Have the best minds of my generation been destroyed by madness?
From Ann Charters’ introduction to The Portable Beat Reader: Earlier in the history of American literature, the novelist Henry James acknowledged in his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne that “the best things come, as a general thing, from the talents that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Charters, artists, Generation X, peers, the 60s, The Portable Beat Reader
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