Kerouac’s Buddhism: When, Where, and Why It Began
I’ve always gravitated to Jack Kerouac’s more spiritual nature—his thoughts on the big questions...
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Category: Essays
Gavin Arthur’s Bohemian Life
I first learned of Gavin Arthur through his various Beat connections, but in fact his trip through...
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Mythmaking and the 6 Gallery
On October 7, 1955, Allen Ginsberg read the first part of his most famous poem, “Howl,” in a...
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The (Un)Erotic Community of Bodies: From Walt Whitman to the Beats
Elisa Sabbadin, University College Cork, School of English, PhD Farid Ghadami, Univ Paris Est...
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The Death of David Kammerer: 80 Years Later
The story of Lucien Carr killing David Kammerer is well-trodden ground in Beat circles, but like...
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A Restless Quest for Spiritual Freedom: Jack Kerouac, Hoboism, Zen Buddhism, and the Fellaheen Ethos
Jack Kerouac has certainly been and is still an inspiration for various groups of people coming...
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First Draft, Best Draft?
Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” is one of the best-known poems of the twentieth century, its opening line...
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The Tangible Absence of Doctor Benway
From Balloons to Hospitals: Walt Whitman’s Blindness and Insight Earlier this month, as part of...
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Jack Kerouac and Allan Temko: Contrasting Visions of the Sublime
One of Jack Kerouac’s closest friends and literary associates in the 1940s was a fellow aspiring...
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“Seems Like a Freeze-Out”: Bob Dylan as Honorary Beat
The mystery of “America” has consumed and eluded generations of creators in equal measure; a...
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Mysteries of The Six Gallery
Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now...
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Elvis Presley and the Beat Generation
There are various superficial connections between Elvis Presley and the writers of the Beat...
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