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31st January

Beatdom #5 is released!

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 Issue One

Regulars

Letters From the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Poetry
Photography
Modern Beats
From The News Desk
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Features

Buddhism and the Beats
Bob Kaufman - The Unsung Beat
Walt Whitman and the Beat Generation
Father and Son: Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan
The Significance of Vagrants On American Literature
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Articles

Beat Books
What Do Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson and Jesus Have in Common?
The Nanotechnological Red Bull Oxycodone Assessment
Know Your Beats
Seven Beat Tales
Truth, Justice and the International Super Highway
Beats Online
A Beaten Dream?
Eat at Joe¨s: The American Dream?
Harry Potter and the Death of Literature
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Interviews

Steve McAllister
Ken Babbs
Paul Krassner
Zane Kesey
Barry Gifford
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Fiction

Ganga Chip Adventure
Banter Goodfriend
New York Lights Burning Bright

Issue Two

Regulars
Letters from the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Poetry
Photography

Features
Women of the Beat Generation
The life of Gregory Corso
Saving Bukowski¨s Bungalow

Articles
My Moriartys
On the Road... By John Kerouac
A Beaten People?
No Great Society
The Influence of Jack Kerouac on Hunter S Thompson

Interviews
Neeli Cherkovski

Reviews
Heart Beat, by Carolyn Cassady
Beatniks, by Toby Litt
The Outsiders of New Orleans
Bohemian New Orleans

Fiction/ Art/ Memoirs
Outlaw Traveller
Methodological Individualism
Next Stop, Woody Creek
Rise of the Appliances

On the Beat - The Modern Counterculture
Stevia - A Bitter/Sweet Story
Freeganism

 

Issue Three

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Regulars

Letters From the Editor

Modern Beats: Tom Waits

 

Features
Who's Who: A Guide to Kerouac's Characters

The Streetlight on the Road: Gregory Corso

 

Articles

Beat

The Lost Novel: And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks

Beat Dictionary

On the Map

 

Issue Four

Regulars

Letters from the Editor

Notes on Contributors

Poetry

Modern Beat

 

Features

HST & The Beats: Fleeting Encounters

Jack Kerouac¨s Visions of Gerard

Joan Vollmer: In the Eyes of her Contemporaries

Beats & the Sixties Counterculture

Alene Lee: Subterranean Muse

 

Articles

The Sea is my Brother, by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac & The Outsider: A Puzzle

The Breton Traveller

The Plurality of the Beat Spirituality

 

Interviews

Carolyn Cassady

Gary Snyder

 

Reviews

Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway

 review No Country for Old Men

Required Reading

 

Fiction/ Art/ Memoirs

Woodcuttings of the Beats

The Gun and the New Dark Way

Deep Fried Ducktape and Sushi Knives

Jack & Edward

Going to Meet the Man: First Encounter with Allen Ginsberg

 

Issue Five

Regulars

Letter from the Editor

Modern Beat

Poetry

 

Interviews

"Howl" Goes to Hollywood

Helen Weaver

 

Articles

The Visions of Burroughs

Naked Lunch at Fifty

Naked Lunch on Film

The Battle for Kerouac's Estate

Lady Beats

Do the Beats Still Matter?

 

Art/ Fiction/ Memoirs

Someone to Write to

Hence the Drama

Deep Fried Duct Tape and Sushi Knives pt. 2

 

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