60s literature - suggestions pls

[niceglasses]

Am doing OU course and need some suggestions for some good 60s literature poetry/prose/UK/US. Its in relation to a sort of counter cultural question, so I suppose someone like Kerouac, but have never got on too well with him. Any ideas you cultural lot?

Many thanks in advance.........

electric kool aid acid test

one flew over the cuckoos nest
the bell jar
a clockwork orange

would strongly recommend Maya Angelou .. I know she started in the 60s but not sure which titles are relevant .. (I know why the caged bird sings is fab if its 60s)
To Kill a Mockingbird and Catch 22 (Harper Lee / Joseph Heller respectively) One flew over the cuckoo's nest
The Feminine Mystique
I seem to remember that the kids' book ... Where the Wild Things Are was 1960s

oh that's a shame \link{http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/angelou/angelou_bio.html\maya angelou seems to be published mainly in 70s}

Thank girls, great ideas. Keep em coming.........

allen ginsberg
kurt vonnegut
william burroughs

Yeah sorta scared of Kerouac and Burroughs.....should try Burroughs tho.

Charles Bukowski - virutally anything
Mailer's American Dream

You could look at other US 'beat generation' writers - William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti etc, or you could look at British equivalents from the 'Angry Young Men' brigade like Kinglsey Amis or Harold Pinter (if playscripts are of interest?)

the autobiography of malcolm x

I find a few of these hard going to be honest, never managed to read a clockwork orange even though it's skinny lol

second for Kurt Vonnegut

He's sooooooooooooooo dry and clever

do androids dream of electric sheep Philip k dick

Found this \link{http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html#book\treasure chest of ideas}. Still trying to find a British equivalent.

Great stuff. Was wondering if I could get away with the sort of kitchen sink stuff from the UK - Room at the Top, Margaret Drabble sorta stuff, but don't know how that fits in c-cult wise. This stuff seems better........

Just thought - 60s Britain - Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings - not sure you need anything else!

leonard cohen wrote an experimental novel

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Brilliant really brilliant

Larkin, yeah, that could do it. Many thanks everyone.......got me inspired and all that. Now just have to write the bleein thing.

God,can only imagine how tedious Leanord's novel must be.
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what about Iris Murdoch?

Depends what you mean by counter-culture really

The L-shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

More social commentaries than out and out counter-culture though

(Zippi, the autobiog. of Malcolm X is fascinating)

from Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

Spring comes into Quebec from the west. It is the warm Japan Current that brings the change of season to the east coast of Canada, and then the West Wind picks it up. It comes across the prairies in the breath of the Chinook, waking up the grain and caves of bears. It flows over Ontario like a dream of legislation, and it sneaks into Quebec, into our villages, between our birch trees. In Montreal the cafes, like a bed of tulip bulbs, sprout from their cellars in a display of awnings and chairs. In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, "The winter has not killed us again!" Spring comes into Quebec from Japan, and like a prewar Crackerjack prize it breaks the first day because we play too hard with it. Spring comes into Montreal like an American movie of Riviera Romance, and everyone has to sleep with a foreigner, and suddenly the house lights flare and it's summer, but we don't mind because spring is really a little flashy for our taste, a little effeminate, like the furs of Hollywood lavatories. Spring is an exotic import, like rubber love equipment from Hong Kong, we only want it for a special afternoon, and vote tariffs tomorrow if necessary.

just for moondog and so you get a taste of what to expect!!!

Reccommend Bukowski's Ham On Rye

and Burroughs Naked Lunch

Joe Orton?

niceglasses do you mean literature written in the 60's or written about the 60's?