Portable Beat Reader Stephane Frattini This edition also includes not-to-be-missed

This edition also includes not-to-be-missed bonus content from the story's earliest days

This anthology pushes the boundaries of fantasy

The former dock worker

Stuck in a rut on work

Thomas' Snowsuit

Portable Beat Reader Stephane Frattini This edition also includes not-to-be-missedBeginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four letter word, and the word was beat. Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V 8 Chevy. It was the junk sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder. The Portable Beat Reader collects the most significant writing