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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 »
We found this while doing some research on the Charters’ Book, “Brother-Souls:John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. It has only had 79 views so far, so enjoy something new!!! Read a review of their book and learn... read more »
As an MFA fiction student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University (one of the longest, most consistently-made-fun-of school names ever), I was fortunate enough to be brought face-to-face with some of the most legendary... read more »
On May 15, Patti Smith told us about her new record, Banga, and some of the source for the title track’s inspiration, Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. We have been listening to the new music a lot, enjoying it immensely,... read more »
On May 15, 1891, Mikhail Bulgakov was born. Today, also May 15, Patti Smith was kind enough to talk to Beatdom about writing, her favorite Apostles, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and Herbert Huncke, among other things.... read more »
“Scientology was useful to me until it became a religion, and I have no use for religion. It’s just another one of those control-addict trips and we can all do without those.” This essay would be a lot easier to write without using... 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 »
Okay, we admit it. We forgot his birthday. This post has been backdated to make it look like we remembered, but we won’t lie… We forgot. Sorry. Oh well, better late than never. Which was okay with Corso, himself. He was the youngest... read more »
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