The Beats – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 73

In this episode, David Sterritt introduces the Beats, the generation of writers in the 1950s and 1960s who broke taboos and countered conservative culture to change American literature. A PDF transcript for this episode can be found here: https://oxfordacademic.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/VSI-Ep-73-The-Beats-transcript.pdf Learn more about The Beats: A Very Short Introduction here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-beats-a-very-short-introduction-9780199796779 David Sterritt is Professor Emeritus of Theatre and Film at Long Island University and Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is also the former Chair of the National Society of Film Critics. Subscribe to The Very Short Introductions Podcast on: – Amazon Music: https://oxford.ly/3jDBK5Z – Apple Podcasts: https://oxford.ly/2SQQ79R – Audible: https://oxford.ly/3yw0xSn – Blubrry: https://oxford.ly/2IVCep0 – Google Podcasts: https://oxford.ly/34W2bvY – iHeartRadio: https://oxford.ly/3vjowkl – SoundCloud: https://oxford.ly/3nPvtoD – Spotify: https://oxford.ly/3dxUJuP – Stitcher: https://oxford.ly/3k9kEvH – TuneIn: https://oxford.ly/3M7iMAU – YouTube: https://oxford.ly/3kZF8Jh © Oxford University Press