Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists... Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were not the only “beats”. Not as widely know as their male counterparts, Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman, and Madeline Gleason were all instrumental to the beat movement. Knight’s book attempts to rectify this oversight by profiling these women and others of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Just as the men did, these women wrote poetry, went...

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand... One of my favorite all times books is The Fountainhead which opens with “Howard Roark laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. ” Words which made me want to know who Howard Roark was and why was he standing naked at the edge of a cliff? I know the answers now and encourage you to find out for yourself. The story follows the life of Howard Roark, an architect, and several people he interacts with, including...