Playbill
June, 1959
"Woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation," Jack Kerouac intones in this issue, "the wind'll blow it back." The warning is part of his new Playboy article, The Origins of the Beat Generation, a disarming statement of opinion from that generation's most vocal and probably most authoritative spokesman. Kerouac's utterance, we feel, is a valuable amplification of the triptych survey, The Beat Mystique (Playboy, February 1958), in which Herbert Gold, Sam Boal and Noel Clad...
