Raj Chandarlapaty
Raj Chandarlapaty is Assistant Professor of English at American University of Afghanistan. He is the author of two books, The Beat Generation and Counterculture: Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and Re-Creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination: Music, Film and Photography. He has published essays on Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Mohammed Mrabet, and Allen Ginsberg. His most recent book will appear this fall, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs: New Americanist Visions in Film and Biography (Lexington Books).