..' in time with Ginsberg's voice." (qtd. in Charters 375) It was as close to a religious event as they come. Soon after, he was submitting the manuscript to Lawrence Ferlighetti, the publisher at City Lights Books, and the literary world would never be the same.
             Although John Cellon Holmes has published his novel, Go, nearly five years prior, in 1957, the definitive book of the Beat Generation was finally unleashed on the world. It was a literary experiment, having been written in an untraditional novel style. First and foremost, the final draft was written in a three-week flurry, with the author doing drugs and drinking coffee to keep his momentum going, as if he worried that stopping for just a brief moment would derail his entire creative train. Jack Kerouac's, On The Road, forever changed the lives of many young people, who took it upon themselves to hit the road in search of adventures similar to the ones that the two main characters experience. A reporter named Gilbert Millstein with The New York Times wrote:
             "Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises ca
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