Literary Links

Beat Generation

• The Beat Generation FAQ file - a chronology of Beat Generation literature, and links to other sites
• Beat scene - comments and links about beat generation authors, and their writing methods
• Jack Kerouac pages - a book shop in California that sells Beat Genearation literature
• Sherri's Beat Bibliography - maintained by Sherri, the official Literary Kicks bibliographer
• The Beat Generation - like the French Impressionists in Paris, the Beat writers were a small group of close friends first, and a movement later
• Literary Kicks - This seems to be a mirror of "The Beat Generation", or that one is a mirror of this. Whichever way round it is, you can find similar stuff about Kerouac, Ginsberg etc al.
• Hippie Literature of the 1960s - an exhibit of sixties literature by the University of Virginia
• The Wild Bohemian Home Page - Beats, hippies and more, with information about the links between them
• Death to the world - not quite the beat geneartion, but something on the Christian counter-culture inspired by Fr Seraphim Rose, who studied under Alan Watts at about the same time as Gary Snyder and Lew Welch.

Dostoevsky

• The Dostoevsky site - the life and work of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian novelist.
• Literature and nihilism - a discussion of the responses of various authors to nihilism. Includes Turgenev's Fathers and sons, Lewis's Out of the silent planet, Dostoevsky and more.

The Inklings

• Christian SF and Fantasy - recommended reading - a list compiled by the Avenging Aardvark (Ross Pavlac) before his death in 1997. His web pages are a fitting memorial, and well worth reading, though an offline browser is advisable - there's a lot of reading!
• The Web of Exchange - the Charles Williams page
• Coinherence - the Charles Williams page
• The Enid - a band that has based some of its music on the world of Charles Williams
• The Inklings and C.S. Lewis Page
• The Mythopoeic Society
• Lewis's fiction - a discussion of Lewis's fiction.
• Taruithorn - the Oxford Tolkien Society.
• The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page
• The Halls of Tolkien - another Tolkien page, with notes on his works

Almost Inklings

• Alan Garner - the author of The weirdstone of Brisingamen, The moon of Gomrath and Elidor.
• Elidor: the gardens within - a critique of Alan Garner's Elidor.
• Madeleine l'Engle - in some ways Madeleine l'Engle could be an honorary Inkling. Her books have some features common to the Inklings, a blending of fantasy and everyday life.

Theological Books

• The Fr Alexander Schmemann Home Page - Fr Alexander Schmemann was the Dean of the St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York, USA. He wrote several books in English on Orthodox theology, and his books helped to make Orthodoxy better-known in the English-speaking world.

Miscellaneous links

• Alan Paton - one of South Africa's best-known authors, whose novel Cry the beloved country has been made into a film more than once, originally as a musical called Lost in the stars and more recently in a version under its own title, which, in spite of its use of foreign actors in the major roles, remains faithful to the book. There is also a web page for the film.
• BookCrossing.Com - an interesting site where people exchange books by releasing them "into the wild".
• Robertson Davies - a Canadian author whose works seem to be a well-kept secret.
• H.P. Lovecraft - this 1930s horror writer is enjoing a revival of popularity.
• End of the world books - an annotated list of books with an "end of the world" scenario. Some disaster - plague or nuclear war - has struck the planet, and only a handful of survivors remain. Another site with a similar theme is Decimated Earth
• RABble - web pages of some regular participants in the rec.arts.books newsgroup.

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