The series of books "From beatnik to Palanik" will introduce the main famous personalities working in this direction. The concept of "beat generation" was coined by Jack Kerouac in 1948, as characterizing the New York underground and non-conformist youth movements. Soon this direction turned into a real subculture, which was initially not very large. Famous literary representatives were writers Chuck Palahniuk, Hubert Selby Jr., Katherine Dunn and others