On March 12th, we will release a special edition of Beatdom to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kerouac. Here are the contents. (One or two more pieces will be confirmed later.)
Essays
“I Think of Jack Kerouac, I Even Think of Jack Kerouac’s Spontaneous Bop Prosody: The New Vision and Visions of Cody” by Sasha Tamar Strelitz
“Women on the Margins in the Kerouac Legend” by Hank Kalet
“Kerouac, Germany, and the Beat Generation” by Peter Oehler
“To the Things We Can’t Remember, To the Things We Can’t Forget” by Westley Heine
“Memory Babe: The French Connection” by Gerald Nicosia
“Queering Kerouac for the Stage” by Alyssa Cokinis
“The Mad Ones: How Kerouac Introduced his Generation” by David S. Wills
“A Beat in Blackface: Jack Kerouac and the Issue of Race” by Ryan Mathews
“Where Marble Stood and Fell: Gregory Corso in Greece” by Leon Horton
“The Many Names of Jack Kerouac” by David S. Wills
“Kerouac and Myth” by Benjamin Olsen
Interviews
“Remembering Uncle Jack: Neal and Carolyn Cassady’s children look back over a lifetime at their memories of The Great Rememberer” by Ryan Mathews
“On the Road with Brian Hassett” by David S. Wills
Fiction
“Jack in Ghost-Town” by Gerald Nicosia
Here is our cover, produced by the incredible Waylon Bacon…
David S. Wills is the founder and editor of Beatdom literary journal and the author of books about William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hunter S. Thompson. His most recent book is a study of the 6 Gallery reading. He occasionally lectures and can most frequently be found writing on Substack.
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I was interviewed for the new edition, can you please send me a copy? Signed?
That would be great!!
Thank you.
Jami