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The Urchin Book Trunk
As we mentioned earlier, the Urchins are embarking on our first ever Urchin road trip. In preparation for our journey, we look to the interesting minds that have done it before us. Here it is – the Urchin Book Trunk! … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, Literature, Travel
Tagged air-conditioned nightmare, america, america day by day, Beat Generation, beats, bennington, Bill Bryson, books, dogs, edna st vincent millay, electric kool-aid acid test, england, essays, expatriates, frasier, gothic literature, henry david thoreau, henry miller, Jack Kerouac, john steinbeck, london, mark twain, new journalism, nonfiction, novels, on the road, poetry, poodles, pulitzer prize, riding toward everywhere, road trip, roughing it, sal paradise, shirley jackson, simone de beauvoir, sixties, stephen fry, stephen fry in america, the lost continent, tom wolfe, train hopping, travel literature, travels with charley, urchin book trunk, urchin bookshelf, Vermont, walden, we have always lived in the castle, william t vollmann
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Hippies v. Hipsters: The Generation the Revolution Died?
By Sarah Jost In the 1950s, the Beat Generation renounced a focus on material possessions and conformity in favor of a life of bohemian creativity and experimentation. A direct result of the seriousness and repression of the World War II era, … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Music, Sarah
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, animal cruelty, anti-establishment, Arcade Fire, Beat Generation, civil rights movement, fixed-gear bicycles, folk, hippies, Hipsters, hunger and poverty, Iraqi War, Jack Kerouac, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, oil spill, polar bears, Punk, the draft, Vietnam War, white privilege, William S. Burroughs, World War II
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