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Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Many thanks to Bill Morgan, author and Allen Ginsberg bibliographer and archivist, and Grey Art Gallery, New York University, for the Saturday, April 6, 2013, 2:00 pm walking tour “Allen Ginsberg... read more »
“He made an effort to hold down a regular job, but he was a terrible employee and didn’t seem to be suited for anything practical…” I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan I once had an extraordinary... read more »
This paper is a short inquiry into the quality of Jack Kerouac’s poetry. Kerouac is an American writer who has maintained an enduring hold on succeeding generations of readers through his long prose works, such as On the Road and The Dharma... read more »
Zen Buddhism is nearly impossible to write about. The use of words and logic to explain Zen are in opposition to its nature, one free of such restrictions. The question then arises: how can we know the principles of Zen if we can’t directly... read more »
One of the many rewarding aspects of editing Beatdom is that of reading a fine new piece of writing or viewing a great new art submission. Sometimes readers send works which are not intended for publication but are wondrous and shared simply... read more »
This interview originally appeared in Beatdom #12 – the CRIME issue. You can purchase it on Amazon and Kindle. Amiri Baraka is Beat. He walked away from the scene in Greenwich Village, where he edited literary journals Yugen, Kulchur,... read more »
“Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” at the Grey Art Gallery New York University January 15 – April 6, 2013, New York, NY By GK Stritch “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” at the Grey Art Gallery New... read more »
by G.K. Stritch – find her on Amazon A criminal — car thief, wife beater, sociopath — told me about the Great Falls in Paterson, New Jersey, when I was seventeen. Probation mandated that the thug enlist in a state-funded... read more »
“What are you rebelling against?” the local girl asks one of the “saintly motorcyclists” in the 1953 movie The Wild One, and Marlon Brando drawls, “Whaddaya got?” That’s a biography in brief of French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who... read more »
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality … woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don’t understand history and the yearning of human... read more »
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As far as fiction goes, you forgot Shadows (circa 1960) by John Cassavettes. Al...
