Editing Beatnik (section)

==Beatnik books==
Alan Bisbort's survey ''Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture'' was published by Greenwood Press in 2009 as part of the series ''Greenwood Press Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures''. The book includes a timeline, a glossary and biographical sketches. Others in the Greenwood series: ''Punks'', ''Hippies'', ''Goths'' and ''Flappers''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.litkicks.com/BisbortBeatniks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150907/http://www.litkicks.com/BisbortBeatniks|url-status=dead|title=Beatniks: How I Wrote A Subculture Guidebook|date=April 7, 2010|archive-date=December 30, 2010|website=Literary Kicks|first1=Alan|last1=Bisbort}}</ref>

''Tales of Beatnik Glory: Volumes I and II'' by [[Ed Sanders]] is, as its name suggests, a collection of short stories, and a definitive introduction to the beatnik scene as lived by its participants.<ref>{{Cite book
  | last = Sanders
  | first = Ed
  | author-link = Ed Sanders
  | title = Tales of Beatnik Glory: Volumes I and II
  | publisher = Citadel Underground
  | year = 1990
  | location = New York
  | isbn = 978-0-8065-1172-6
  | url-access = registration
  | url = https://archive.org/details/talesofbeatnikgl00sand
  }}</ref> The author, who went on to found [[The Fugs]], lived in the beatnik epicenter of [[Greenwich Village]] and the [[Lower East Side]] in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Among the humor books, ''Beat, Beat, Beat'' was a 1959 [[New American Library|Signet]] paperback of cartoons by [[Phi Beta Kappa]] Princeton graduate William F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the TV department of the [[BBDO|Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn]] advertising agency.<ref>Brown, William F. ''Beat, Beat, Beat''. New American Library|Signet, 1959.</ref>

''[[Suzuki Beane]]'' (1961), by [[Sandra Scoppettone]] with Louise Fitzhugh illustrations, was a [[Bleecker Street (Manhattan)|Bleecker Street]] beatnik spoof of [[Kay Thompson]]'s ''[[Eloise (books)|Eloise]]'' series (1956–1959).

In the 1960s comic book, the [[Justice League of America]]'s sidekick [[Snapper Carr]] was portrayed as a stereotypical beatnik, down to his lingo and clothes. The [[DC Comics]] character [[Jonny Double]] is portrayed as a beatnik.