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Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation || 5:00 A.M. Photograph by Bruce Davidson / Magnum The poet Allen Ginsberg was born ninety-two years ago today, on June 3rd, 1926. To celebrate, we’re bringing you pieces about the Beat Generation and the ways it changed American culture. Subscribers can read Jane Kramer’s two - part Profile of Ginsberg, which follows him across America, from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. In…

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