Beatdom was first published in 2007. Our early publishing schedule was inconsistent, but after several years we switched to an annual schedule with themed issues. Most of the recent issues of Beatdom are available via Amazon as printed and Kindle editions, with the earliest ones unfortunately out of print.
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Beatdom Back Issues
Apologies for the formatting problems below. It is difficult to extract information from 15+ years of printed journals, and then convert them into a handy list form…
| Title | Editor(s) | Contents | Publication Date | Buy Link |
| Beatdom #1 | David S. Wills | ESSAYS 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 Beat Books What Do Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson and Jesus Have in Common? The Nanotechnological Red Bull Oxycodone Assessment Meet the 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 Alcoholic Depravity INTERVIEWS Steve McAllister Ken Babbs Paul Krassner Zane Kesey Barry Gifford FICTION Ganga Chip Adventure Banter Goodfriend New York Lights Burning Bright | 2007 | Out of Print |
| Beatdom #2 | David S. Wills | FEATURES Women of the Beat Generation Saving Bukowski’s Bungalow The Life of Gregory Corso ARTICLES No Great Society Review A Beaten People? My Moriartys The Influence of Jack Kerouac on Hunter S Thompson INTERVIEWS Neeli Cherkovski REVIEWS Heart Beat The Outsiders of New Orleans FICTION Outlaw Traveller Rise of the Appliances On the Beat – The Modern Counterculture Stevia – A Bitter/Sweet Story Freeganism | 2008 | Out of Print |
| Beatdom #3 | David S. Wills | FEATURES Who’s Who: A Guide to Kerouac’s Characters The Streetlight on the Road: Gregory Corso ARTICLES Beat Beatnik Dictionary On the Map The Lost Novel: And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks Fact & Fiction in Las Vegas The Modern World Welcome to the Plastic World On the Holloway Road The American Epidemic FICTION Tempest Tavern Temptress | 2009 | Out of Print |
| Beatdom #4 | David S. Wills | 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 Plurarity 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 First Encounters with Allen Ginsberg The Gun and the New Dark Way Deep Fried Ducktape and Sushi Knives Jack & Edward | 2009 | Out of Print |
| Beatdom #5 | David S. Wills | FEATURES The Visions of Burroughs Naked Lunch at 50 Naked Lunch on Film The Battle for Kerouac’s Estate Lady Beats Do the Beats Still Matter? INTERVIEWS ‘Howl’ Goes to Hollywood Helen Weaver FICTION/ART/MEMOIRS Someone to Write to Hence the Drama Deep Fried Ductape and Sushi Knives pt. 2 | 2009 | Out of Print |
| Beatdom #6 | David S. Wills | ESSAYS Walking with the Barefoot Beat Finding Alene The Beats on the Road Literature and the Art of Self-Realisation Lest we Forget In Tangier INTERVIEWS Scroobius Pip REVIEWS A Blue Hand: The Beats in India FICTION/ART/MEMOIRS Sisters On the Road Changed my Life… Domino Diaries: Havana Zoo LSD 25000 Transylvanian Tale The Crooked Path Toward Salvation Postcard from Allen Ginsberg | 2010 | Out of Print |
| Beatdom #7 – the MUSIC issue | David S. Wills, Wayne Mullins, and Edaurdo Jones | ESSAYS Setting Gonzo to a Beat Long John Silver and the Beats Last Thoughts on Ginsberg and Music William S. Burroughs: Rock God Remembering Peter Orlovsky Come Join Uncle Sam’s Band Jim Carroll’s Last Diary Entry Patti Smith and the Beats Herbert Huncke: An Oral Biography INTERVIEWS Flying Dog Brewery Michael Sharp Crushing Kerouac FICTION/ART/MEMOIRS Scribbe 2001 The Ballad of Sonny Allen | 2010 | Kindle Only |
| Beatdom #8 – the SEX issue | David S. Wills, Wayne Mullins, and Michael Hendrick | ESSAYS The Lady is a Humble Thing Sick or Magical Romance and the Rolling Stone Many Loves Loneliness and Waitresses Poetess and Patriarch Gregory Corso – Poet of the Streets The Sex Life of Jack Kerouac REVIEW Marriage to a Stranger INTERVIEWS Carolyn Cassady FICTION/ART/MEMOIRS Whores Who Were My Friends Gnossienne Kiss Mr Chicken Swinging with the Beats 76 Seconds in Newcastle | 2011 | Buy |
| Beatdom #9 – the DRUGS issue | David S. Wills and Michael Hendrick | ESSAYS From Ganja to God Death within a Chrysalis An Annotated Essay on Kaddish Burroughs as Botanist Sympathy for the Devil? REVIEWS Naked Lens FICTION/ART/MEMOIRS Meat from Craigslist LSD at the Dobie Saint Thomas Becket At the Holiday Inn | 2011 | Buy |
| Beatdom #10 – the RELIGION issue | David S. Wills and Michael Hendrick | ESSAYS Tristessa: Heavengoing Eating the Beat Menu The Weird Cult: How Scientology Shaped the Writing of William S. Burroughs Hinduism STORIES Maggie Mae and the Band Forever Stung Lost and Found A Short History of Buddhism in Berlin Under the Influence of William S. Burroughs INTERVIEWS Kitty Bruce REVIEWS The One and Only, by Gerald Nicosia | 2011 | Buy |
| Beatdom #11 – the NATURE issue | David S. Wills, Michael Hendrick, and Katharine Hollister | ESSAYS Billy Burroughs: Gentleman Farmer Hunter S. Thompson: Gonzo Frontiersman After the Deluge Rub Out the Words William Blake and the Beat Generation INTERVIEW Al Hinckle Ann Charters Richie Ramone FICTION Grizzly Bear | 2012 | Buy |
| Beatdom #12 – the CRIME issue | David S. Wills, Michael Hendrick, and Katharine Hollister | INTERVIEWS Joyce Johnson Patti Smith Amiri Baraka ESSAYS Joyce rebuttal by Paul Maher Jnr Herbert Huncke: Times Square Superstar John Clellon Holmes essay Beat Rap Sheet Night Shift American Zen Jack Kerouac’s Poetry: Where’s the Gold? FICTION Baby American Dream Bear story REVIEWS Brother Souls | 2012 | Buy |
| Beatdom #13 – the DRINKING issue | David S. Will and Katharine Hollister | ESSAYS The Beats: Bad Drunks – David S. Wills Meeting William S. Burroughs – Cabell McClean and Matthew Levi Stevens Drunk and Disorderly – Chris Dickerson William S. Burroughs, C.J. Bradbury, and Williams Mix – Matthew Levi Stevens The Second Wave of American Interest in Japanese Culture – Charlie Canning Drinking from the Beat Menu REVIEWS This Ain’t No Holiday Inn Text, Drugs, and Rock’n’Roll FICTION The Boys in the Bar – Chris Dickerson All of it was made for you and Me – Andre M. Zucker Sophie – Cristian Ponici | 2013 | Buy |
| Beatdom #14 – the MOVIE issue | David S. Wills, Michael Hendrick, and Katharine Hollister | Beat Film Overview – David S. Wills American Mutants – Marc Olmsted The Road’s Too Raw – Nick Meador $10,000 Screenplay – Doug Draime Film Noir on a Jazzy Night – Robin Como Heart of Dreams – David Morgan-Brown Taking Tiger Mountain – Adrien Why Can’t They Get It? – Neil Reddy Filming Hunter S. Thompson – Wayne Ewing Hunger for Peace – Jon Sindell Pulling Our Daisy – David S. Wills lie with me – eahba rose I Found the Flower – Dason Anderson Big Sur – Nick Meador Setting Kerouac to Music – David S. Wills Howl Essay – Michelle Rudolf One More Year – Amber Cook Burroughs: The Movie – Tom Cottey The Zaps – Julie Finch A Fish With Frog’s Eyes – Kurt Cline Storming the Reality Studio with Uncle Bill – Matthew Levi Stevens I’ve Seen That Movie, Too – Giuseppi Martino Buonaiuto | 2014 | Buy |
| Beatdom #15 – | David S. Will and Katharine Hollister | ESSAYS The Beat Generation at War War Upon War: Second Generation Beats and Postmemory Borne Out of War: The British Beats Blood and Black Power on the Streets of Chicago Howl of the Abject War All the Time REVIEWS The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs INTERVIEWS Gordon Ball | 2014 | Buy |
| Beatdom #16 – the MONEY issue | David S. Wills | The Burroughs Millions – David S. Wills The Debt Collector Herbert Huncke Excerpt – Hilary Holladay Finding Ferlinghetti – Calvin White Ginsberg in the Underground – Delilah Gardner Nothing is Perfect – Bob Pope A Negative Score on the Happiness List – Katie Stewart The American Dreamer Goes the Way of the American Hobo – Gina Stritch Telling All The Road – Max Bakke Review: At the End of the Road – David S. Wills Beaten White – Alyssa Cokinis The Surrealist – Brandon Lee Review: The Whole Shot Reconsidering Kerouac – Richard Kostelanetz | 2015 | Buy |
| Beatdom #17 – the POLITICS issue | David S. Wills | “World Citizen: How Politics Shaped the Travels of Allen Ginsberg, and How Travel Shaped his Politics” by David S. Wills “The Flying Dutchman: An Overview of LeRoi Jones’ Greatest Commentary on the Struggle of the Black Man and Racial Relations in Post-World War America” by Alyssa Cokinis “‘America’: Allen Ginsberg’s Hopeful Satire” by Eliot Katz “Defining Beat: Era, Location, and the Importance of Considering Women” by M.G. Wessels “Turtle Island: An Eco-Critique of Capitalism” by Elizabeth Lee Reynolds “Ginsberg and the Machinery of Capitalism: A Political Reading of Howl” by Arianna Garofalo “Gonzo Personas: Hunter S. Thompson and John G. Clancy” by Frederic B. Wildfang “Echoes of the Revolution: Diane di Prima and the Beat Generation” by William Nesbitt “Elegy for Allen” by Eliot Katz “I’m Watching You Watching Me: The Inversion of the Gaze in Ginsberg’s Photographs” by Katie Oates “Energy and Consciousness” by Robert T. Walker Review: The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind by Chad Weidner | 2016 | Buy |
| Beatdom #18 – the 10th anniversary special | David S. Wills | The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation – Sean Negus Reptile – Marc Olmsted A psychoanalytic perspective on Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish – Sam Clarke Mom Has a Bad Dream – Eliot Katz The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes – Katie Oates Mechanics and Poetics: William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg – Alexandre Ferrere Two months or so with Corso – Linda Rosenkrantz Breastfed Blood and Urine – Suzi Kaplan Olmsted Politics and Family History: Kaddish and Other Poems – Eliot Katz My Favorite Playmate: A Daughter’s Loving Tribute to Neal Cassady – Cathy Sylvia | 2017 | Buy |
| Beatdom #19 | David S. Wills | Philomene Long: Beat Seeker on the Road That Was Not There – Ryan Mathews Build Four No-Exit Walls – Eliot Katz Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma – Simon Scott Insanity in Ginsberg’s and Epstein’s Howl from a Foucauldian Point of View – Türkü Naz Altınay Daddy’s Girl – Vincent Zangrillo Review of Don’t Hide the Madness After Cézanne – Connor McDonald Martin Matz: “The Last Outlaw Poet” – Ryan Mathews “The Silent Generation”: Sexuality and the Code of Cool in the Female Beat Memoir – Harry Lowther Kaddish for Ira Cohen – Nina Živančević Snake Bit – Vincent Zangrillo Allen Ginsberg in Asia – David S. Wills | 2019 | Buy |
| Beatdom #20 – the POST-BEATS issue | David S. Wills | “Hunter S. Thompson and the Beat Generation” by David S. Wills “Pregnancy always makes me want to fuck more: Sexual and Maternal Desire Entanglements in Diane di Prima” by Ambar Geerts Zapién Two Poems by Eliot Katz “The Encounter Robinsonian: Weldon Kees and Denise Levertov, April–October 1955” by James Reidel “Review of Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century” by Robert Niemi “Interview with John Sampas” by David Daniel “William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Drugs, and Control: When the Beats Split into the Hippies and the Punks” by Westley Heine “Chasing Hunter’s Literary Persona Through the Pages: A conversation with Hunter S. Thompson scholar, Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan” by Noel Dávila “The Beaten Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg, Thompson… and the Battle of Chicago” by Leon Horton “A Shoe that Fits the Mind: A Review of Ginsberg’s South American Journals” by David S. Wills “The Deconstruction and Resurrection of Bob Kaufman” by Ryan Mathews “Fear and Loathing in Utero” by Leon Horton | 2020 | Buy |
| Beatdom #21 – the CHANGE issue | David S. Wills | ESSAYS The Many Lives of LeRoi Jones: Race and the Beat Generation The Change Make the Change: The Art & Prophecy of William S. Burroughs An Excess of Meaning ~ Interpretation and the Cut-Up Only Tough Guys Shit Themselves in Public Boxcar Communion: A Narrative Theological Reflection… Violets are Blue All Change The Lives & Arts of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge INTERVIEWS Gerald Nicosia interviewed by R.B. Morris Like Father, Unlike Son: An Interview with Juan Thompson Turning the Tables: An Interview with Victor Bockris Translating the Beats: An Interview with Farid Gadham REVIEWS Review: Some American Tales by Brenda Frazer Beat Scrapbook Review MEMOIR/POETRY Allen Ginsberg in Nebraska The Times, the Times Omnia Extares Unrecorded Corso Secondhand Flashes A Memory of Gregory Corso | 2021 | Buy |
| Beatdom #22 – the JACK KEROUAC Special | David S. Wills | 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 | 2022 | Amazon |
| Beatdom #23 – the ENVIRONMENT issue | David S. Wills | ESSAYS Homo Sap, the Ugly Animal: Ghost of Chance as Burroughs’ Ultimate Environmental Statement, by David S. Wills How Green Were His Values: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Environmental Poetry, by Ryan Mathews The Beats and an Ecological Awareness, by Peter Oehler Nature, the Self, and its Redemption in the Pastoral Poems of Allen Ginsberg, by Jonas Faust My Bohemian Fling is Over: When Gregory Corso Almost Stopped Being Beat, by Kurt Hemmer Jack Micheline: The Last Bohemian Poet, by Gerald Nicosia The Epic Concatenation of William Buck, by Tom Cantrell A Derridian Exploration into Allen Ginsberg’s Archive(s), by Alexandre Ferrere Turning Right on the Beat Road: Neo-Conservatives Reading Kerouac, by Rob Johnson, Kerouac and Family, by Gerald Nicosia Lawrence on Lawrence: Ferlinghetti on D.H., by Ryan Mathews A Beat Out of Time: The Growing Relevance of Bob Kaufman, by Matz McLaughlin INTERVIEWS Bill Morgan: Keeper of the Sacred Scrolls, by Leon Horton Neeli Cherkovski: To Catch a Moment in Time, by Leon Horton POETRY The Crowning Race, Ron Myers Acceleration (or Is this what tipping point feels like?), by Wayne McCallum Step on April Steps, by Neeli Cherkovski REVIEWS Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation | 2023 | Amazon |
| Beatdom #24 – the WEST COAST issue | David S. Wills Michael Indovina | ESSAYS Go West Young Beats, by Ryan Mathews Kenneth Rexroth: West Coast Bard, by David S. Wills Private[s] Practice: Reading the Priestess in Diane di Prima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik, by Kaley Hensley Lisa Says: Lisa Brinker, Gregory Corso, & Max, by Kurt Hemmer Duncan Among the “Stars”: An Essay on Robert Duncan’s Poetics of “Open Form”, by Yorio Hirano A Note on Climate and Culture, by Weldon Kees And the Hippies Were Boiled in Their Tank Tops, by Leon Horton INTERVIEWS Eileen Myles Interview, by Sylas Yarad Soheyl Dahi Interview, by Ryan Mathews MEMOIRS Gary Snyder Noticed my Face Tattoo, by Tony Wallin-Sato Discoveries, by Barry Garelick REVIEWS He, Leo: The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time | 2024 | Amazon |
There’s some info about future issues of Beatdom here.
