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THE TYPEWRITER IS HOLY!

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/the_typewriter_is_holy_39100529

The title of Morgan’s wholly fascinating new book, “The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation” (Free Press: $28.00, 293 pps.), is inspired by a footnote from Allen Ginsberg’s epoch-making poem, “Howl.” Morgan allows us to glimpse what made Ginsberg and the other Beats such a powerful force in the remaking of American popular culture, but he also shows us ardent seductions (both heterosexual and homosexual), backroom abortions, dabbling in drugs, suicide attempts, and even a murder, all of which help to explain what we read in the poems they left behind.

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