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At the Holiday Inn
Words by Michael Hendrick; Illustration by Waylon Bacon When considering the implications of the affects of drug use on the writing process, it is important to bear in mind that both William S. Burroughs and Timothy Leary opined that there is no affect achieved by the use of drugs which cannot also be altered without [...]
New BB Publications
Beatdom Books is proud to present two new novels set for a 2011 release. The first is Spencer Kansa‘s Zoning, which William S. Burroughs described as “an urban Celine.” Spencer Kansa has written for a wide variety of publications including Hustler, Mojo, Erotic Review and The NME. He is the author of Wormwood Star, a biography [...]
Issue Nine
Here it is, folks: The beautiful cover for Issue Nine, designed by the wonderful Rachel Harper. Issue Nine is drugs-themed. It will feature essays about the Beats and their relationship with drugs, as well as stories and poetry inspired by drugs. Please get your Issue Nine submissions in ASAP. Deadline has been extended to the [...]
Happy Birthday, Beatdom!
Four years ago this month, Beatdom was born in a Scottish pub. It was a dark, cold night and the Guinness was flowing, alongside some wild ideas and a lot of talk of poetry and changing the world. Beatdom has come a long way since then. In fact, it has literally made it around the [...]
Gregory Corso: Poet of the Streets
by James Lough Illustration by Isaac Bonan If the first string of the Beat writers featured Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs, then Gregory Corso was the number one second stringer, an apt metaphor because he loved baseball and wrote about it. When young, in the 1960s, he was a handsome devil, which helped [...]
