Long before Oprah made on-screen confession a thing, there was the O.G. confessional artist: Allen Ginsberg. And who was he?A young, gay Jewish man. But that's not all, of course. He was raised by...

Write whatever's in your head, Ole Jackie might say. See, that's what the Beat generation was all about, and author-poet-extraordinaire Jack Kerouac led by example. But hold up: what does "Beat"mea...

All right, buckle up. Ginsberg and Kerouac were both a little out there. But now it's time for the real crazy train: William Burroughs. William was the son of a wealthy Chicago couple. He was a Har...

If Burroughs and Kerouac were the wild men of the Beat movement, Snyder was one of its steady, guiding lights. The other boys made names for themselves by writing about the underbelly of society. S...