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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by David S. Wills | Oct 7, 2024 | Essays | 2
On October 7, 1955, Allen Ginsberg read the first part of his most famous poem, “Howl,” in a...
Read Moreby Farid Ghadami | Aug 21, 2024 | Essays | 0
Elisa Sabbadin, University College Cork, School of English, PhD Farid Ghadami, Univ Paris Est...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Aug 14, 2024 | Essays, Featured | 0
The story of Lucien Carr killing David Kammerer is well-trodden ground in Beat circles, but like...
Read Moreby El Habib Louai | Jul 9, 2024 | Essays | 0
Jack Kerouac has certainly been and is still an inspiration for various groups of people coming...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jun 25, 2024 | Beatdom Content, Essays, Featured | 0
Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” is one of the best-known poems of the twentieth century, its opening line...
Read Moreby Farid Ghadami | Feb 19, 2024 | Essays | 0
From Balloons to Hospitals: Walt Whitman’s Blindness and Insight Earlier this month, as part of...
Read Moreby Vlae Kershner | Feb 4, 2024 | Essays | 1
One of Jack Kerouac’s closest friends and literary associates in the 1940s was a fellow aspiring...
Read Moreby Cecilia Gigliotti | Dec 15, 2023 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
The mystery of “America” has consumed and eluded generations of creators in equal measure; a...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Oct 7, 2023 | Essays | 0
Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jul 4, 2023 | Essays | 0
There are various superficial connections between Elvis Presley and the writers of the Beat...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jun 19, 2023 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
Jack Kerouac went by more than a few names, not just in his novels, where he used numerous aliases...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jun 15, 2023 | Essays, Featured | 1
As someone who has written extensively on the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, I find it quite...
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