Cut-Up
A few essays on William S. Burroughs, cut-up into a Burroughsesque cut-up...
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Naked Lunch at Fifty
“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . ....
Read MoreLady Beats
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in one anthology as “Poet Priestess,” she is one of the more well-known of these women. My introduction to her large...
Read MoreVisions of Burroughs
by Steven O’Sullivan It’s like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a rush to articulate themselves. But maybe we just can’t articulate certain emotions. Maybe...
Read MoreThe Howl Interview
Perhaps the most exciting movie of 2010 for Beatdom readers is ‘Howl’, a 1950s era feature film...
Read MoreThe Battle for Kerouac’s Estate
by David S. Wills “Money is the root of all evil” For I will Write In my will “I regret that I was not able To love money more.” Jack Kerouac, 238th Chorus, Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969, of cirrhosis...
Read MoreHelen Weaver Interview
Recent history has seen the women in the life of Jack Kerouac finally bring to public attention...
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Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable
by David S. Wills The novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen: it has...
Read MoreDo the Beats Matter Today?
by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the time, many critics announced the Beat Generation was irrelevant and had faded away. Others claimed the Beats were an insignificant...
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