Literary Links

Beat Generation

• The Beat Generation FAQ file - a chronology of Beat Generation literature, and links to other sites
• Jack Kerouac pages - a book shop in California that sells Beat Generation literature
• Jack Kerouac's Heavenly Lane - and other Beat Generation writers
• Sherri's Beat Bibliography - maintained by Sherri, the official Literary Kicks bibliographer
• Literary Kicks - now a blog.
• 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
• Youth of the apocalypse - punx to monks - not quite the beat generation, but something on the Christian counterculture 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.

The Inklings

• The Web of Exchange - the Charles Williams page
• The Enid - a band that has based some of its music on the world of Charles Williams
• The Mythopoeic Society
• Taruithorn - the Oxford Tolkien Society.
• C.S. Lewis and the Inklings - resource site
• The Halls of Tolkien - another Tolkien page, with notes on his works

Almost Inklings

• The G.K. Chesterton Resource Site - lots of useful links
• 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.
• RABble - web pages of some regular participants in the rec.arts.books newsgroup.

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