A long-established online arts magazine including articles and reviews on literary topics, and with an emphasis on the Beat Generation poet, writers, authors & artists such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Ted Joans, A.D. Winans, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many others. The site also offers art and photography galleries, with contemporary artists, and Beat Generation subjects, and urban photography. Since 2000, Empty Mirror has sold collectible and out-of-print Beat Generation, poetry, modern literature, and modern art books. The arts news section spotlights upcoming art exhibitions, poetry readings, film screenings, literary events, calls for submissions, and new book publications. and New contributors are welcomed. more info >>

This book introduces a new way to look at the original hippies of the 1960's. Better known for their anti-american rhetoric than their loyalty to the nation's ideals of freedom, historians have yet to pay tribute to the Haight-Ashbury hippie entrepreneurs, long-haired business owners, merchants, consumer visionaries, and product inventors whose pipe dreams have somehow managed over the course of the last forty years to pump billions of dollars into the U.S. economy and employ millions of Americans abroad. The hippies who revolutionized American business and consumer culture in less than a hundred weeks are the people to whom this book is dedicated. more info >>