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Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and correspondence.
Apr 25, 2018 · Neal Cassady was one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation despite having never published a piece of work during his lifetime.
Dec 12, 2012 · The elder Neal Cassady introduced his son to a world of dissolute excess, freight-car hopping, and hitchhiking.
Feb 4, 2023 · Neal Cassady, who served as an inspiration to budding artists across several generations, lost his life 55 years ago today.
Neal Cassady. Writer: The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Neal Cassady became the well-spring from which the Beat Generation gushed forth due to his close friendships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Born on February 8, 1926 (in the back of a car, according to his own fanciful musings).
Mar 11, 2022 · “The time has come for me to write a full confession of my life to you,” Jack Kerouac typed thunderously to Neal Cassady in December 1950, in the first of a sequence of massive,...
Mar 9, 2021 · Neal Cassady died at 42 from a wild past, a meteor shooting across the sky. “He used more of himself, his body and his mind then the specs of the model would permit,” McNally suggests. Neal Cassady was a master at taking the potential in the present moment and making it manifest, being a walking affirmation.
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s.
Dec 14, 2014 · Neal Cassady attended Ebert Grammar School, which is now a magnet school called Polaris at Ebert. Photographed with a Hipstamatic filter. Despite the chaotic and abusive living conditions at...
Nov 24, 2020 · Neal Cassady: ‘The Joan Anderson Letter’. November 24, 2020 by Jan Herman. When Neal Cassady died in 1968, Carl Solomon recalled a conversation he had about him with Allen Ginsberg: “He told me about this fabulous hipster he knew. (I was to hear more about him in time to come.)
