Herbert Huncke was the original Beat. A hustler, carny, addict, petty thief, street philosopher and chronicler of the demimonde, he was the archetype on which a

American Hipster: The Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement tells the tale of a New York sex worker and heroin addict

Without them, the Hippies and the Punks would never have existed. The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid