A bi-coastal celebration of Beat culture including important letters and previously unseen collaborative drawings.

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller and Roth Horowitz Associates / Ferrini & Biondi are pleased to announce the opening of two Beat exhibitions, held concurrently in New York and Los Angeles.

Along with important examples of Beat literature, each venue will feature selections from the personal letters of Jack Kerouac, written between 1943 and his death in 1967; original photographs by Allen Ginsberg--each with handwritten text; and previously unexhibited graphic works by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin--including some collaborative pieces.

These exhibitions offer privileged glimpses into the internal world of the Beat movement, through the activities of its progenitors. Included are Ginsberg.s candid photographs of writers at rest and play; personal revelations to family and friends as Kerouac searched restlessly for himself in America; cut-ups and fragments of poetry in process; and hallucinogenic drawings Burroughs created to accompany specific passages of his classic Beat text The Naked Lunch.

An illustrated exhibition catalogue, prepared by curators John McWhinnie (NY) and Simon Anderson (LA), is available for $25.

For further information, please contact:

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller

New York City

212.327.3538