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Factotum
Gentleman junkie
Naked angels
The green ghost
On The Road
Lonesome Traveler
Atop an Underwood
Windblown world
Pomes all sizes
Baby driver
Go
San Francisco beat
Kerouac
One and only
The Dharma Bums
The Portable Beat Reader
Beatniks
Visions of Gerard
The town and the city
Tristessa
Memory babe
American scream
This is the Beat Generation
Minor characters
Charles Bukowski
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
Mindfield
Jack Kerouac
Straight from the fridge, dad
When I Was Cool
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