Beatdom is a literary journal that focuses on the Beat Generation and related countercultural movements. It was founded in 2007 by David S. Wills and is published annually in May. We publish essays, interviews, reviews, memoirs, art, poetry, and fiction that are in some way related to the Beat writers, such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
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Perceptual Buddhism vs. the Buzzard Cult in the Teachings of Lew Welch
[Unless otherwise noted, all quotations from Lew Welch are from Ring of Bone, his collected poems,...
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Who’s Afraid of Purple-Assed Trump? Roosevelt, Derrida, Burroughs, Harris, and the Hemorrhoids of Literary Criticism
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Last of the Lincolns: A Review
Last of the Lincolns Iris Press, 2026 By Gerald Nicosia Reviewed by Ryan Mathews [Author’s note:...
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Coming Soon: Beatdom 26
UPDATE: Beatdom #26 is now on sale. You can buy it on Bookshop, Amazon, or Gumroad (as a PDF). It...
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