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“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 »
There are few places around the globe that fully encompass all things Beat Generation in the same way as the City Lights Bookstore. Situated in the heart of San Francisco and owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the most prolific Beat... read more »
Review by Michael Hendrick; Photo by Jerry Aronson A look around at the landscape of today’s world reveals cultural melee and sexual malaise. Everybody looks the same - and not in a good way. To paraphrase Fran Lebowitz, we have been... read more »
On this day in 1925, Bob Kaufman was born. From Beatdom Issue One: Bob Kaufman: The Unsung Beat Overview It always baffles me to find Bob Kaufman omitted from a great many books and documentaries and websites and talk about the Beat Generation.... read more »
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... read more »
On February 25th, Soda Pictures is releasing ‘Howl’ in UK cinemas. The celebrated new movie features James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, and also includes John Hamm and Jeff Daniels in the cast. The movies centres around the obscenity trial... read more »
HT @David Endris Beat-era poet, journalist and activist John Ross passed away January 17th. The Village Voice has posted an obituary penned by Tom Robbins. Ross began reading his poetry in Greenwich Village bars, but became better known on the... read more »
On October 2nd, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his Beat bookstore and publisher, City Lights, will receive Litquake’s 2010 Barbary Award at Herbst Theater. The celebration will be attended by Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Winona Ryder,... 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 »
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