I love a book with scenes set among beatniks, partly because you can find great pictures to go with. Charlotte Bingham published a breathless memoir, Coronet Among the Weeds, in 1963: beatniks ahoy for a rebellious posh teen https://clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/02/beatniks-coronets-and-charlotte-bingham.html

Oscar winner Javier Bardem and two-time nominee Kate Hudson are set to star in 'Hello & Paris', a film adaptation loosely inspired by Deborah McKinlay’s novel 'That Part Was True'

Young Man Reading, by Romanian painter Octavian Smigelschi (1892). Brukenthal National Museum.