Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to host Bill Morgan, the country’s leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, as he discusses and signs The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation, on Wednesday, June 16 at 7pm.

Bill Morgan is the author and editor of more than twenty books on the Beat Generation, including I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg. For nearly forty years he has worked with nearly all the leading figures of the Beat literary movement. He is also an archival consultant who has assisted many of these writers. As a result of these activities, his knowledge of their works and access to their archives is unparalleled. A life-long New Yorker, he now lives in Bennington, VT.

-- Photo by Chris Felver

The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation (Hardcover)

By Bill Morgan

$28.00

ISBN-13: 9781416592426
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Published: Free Press, 5/2010

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