Ginsberg’s Celestial Homework: A “specialized Reading List for ‘Literary History of the Beat Generation,’ a course taught by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa Institute during the summer of 1977.” The original reading list (page 1, page 2, and page 3) has been reverently turned into a web page — into which I could submerge myself for a long time — by journalist-psychonaut Steve Silberman, who was in Ginsberg’s course in the late ’70’s, and several friends. There is a brief biography of each author behind his/her photograph and, where they are available online, you can navigate to the texts included.