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Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s books contain such a variety of subjects, styles, and voices that his readers have never shared many common characteristics. On the surface,... read more »
with a sadly smile I’m watching you escape finally from my beauty bruising lips and knowing knowing you will freely fly with scorched and soaring certainty to these temples of our earth and other earths and learn all my mistakes, mischance... read more »
By Spencer Kansa In 1951, Jack Kerouac began work on a roman a clef whose breathless prose would help define an era and seduce generations to come, On the Road. Based on his road trip adventures from the previous decade, Kerouac drew upon his... read more »
Greetings. As you will have gathered from the previous post, there’s not much action over at Beatdom. Beat news reports and our Facebook quote game have been on hiatus, and there hasn’t been much news about issue eight or the long-awaited... read more »
This is very exciting. There is a movie in production that aims to uncover the meaning of “Beat” today. The producers are travelling across the United States, meeting with poets, artists and other creative types, to explore their... read more »
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have helped shape our perceptions of the world around us. From obvious influences on hitch-hiking to more serious questions relating to the environment,... read more »
by Adi Rajkovic There have been many pivotal experiences and events that have influenced my vision as an artist, but the most arresting event (historically speaking) has been the Beat Generation. Although short lived and long ago in the 1950′s,... read more »
Wills, D., ‘Whitman and the Beats’ in Wills, D., (ed.) Beatdom Vol. 1 (City of Recovery Press: Dundee, 2007) It’s hard to read Kerouac or Ginsberg and not think of the father of American poetry, Walt Whitman. Well, it’s hard... read more »
Wills, D., ‘The Vagrant and American Literature’ in Wills, D., Beatdom Vol. 1 (City of Recovery Press: Dundee, 2007) The Vagrant and American Literature America has always been a nation of expansion, of travelling and growing and... read more »
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