
The Beat Generation--the postwar literary revolution that canonized Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs--has long been mythologized as a story of male genius and rebellion. But behind those iconic names were women whose lives and ambitions were swallowed by the legend. When writer...

A writer's obsession with Joan Vollmer--the forgotten figure at the heart of the Beat Generation--is a stark reminder that a woman's hunger to create always comes at a price. Braiding past and present, She Was Wild Grass asks what it means to create in a world where...