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Get your snapping fingers ready and your Jack Kerouac boners up (I know you have them): Author Bill Morgan is gonna take us across this great nation of ours as only the Beatniks saw it tonight at the San Francisco Public Library!

I don’t understand the Allen Ginsberg phenomenon (read: I’m completely illiterate), but I know he’s kind of a big deal. Morgan was an archivist and bibliographer for not only Ginsberg but also Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, and others, so dude knows what’s up with the Beat Generation. This is even more evident in his new book, Beat Atlas: a State-by-State Guide to the Beat Generation. He’ll help tonight’s audience track the likes of Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs past New York and San Francisco to their haunts nationwide. This FREE event is rather appropriately co-sponsored by City Guides and City Lights Books (Ferlinghetti was a co-founder).

Bill Morgan at SFPL’s Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St. at Market [Civic Center]
Tuesday, April 26, 6:30-7:30pm
FREE
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Image courtesy of City Lights

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