Herbert Huncke – Times Square Superstar
by Spencer Kansa. I first met Herbert Huncke in the Spring of 1992, during a layover in New...
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Down These Mean Streets: Raymond Chandler’s L.A.
by Chris Dickerson Certain cities belong to a few writers. They may not own the towns...
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Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation
We recently passed a watershed moment in modern American literature, as November, 2012, marked...
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The Voice is All: Joyce Johnson Talks about Her Latest Book
Joyce Johnson’s role in Beat history is too often viewed simply as that of Jack Kerouac’s...
Read MoreJack Kerouac’s Poetry—Where is the Gold, if There’s Gold?
This paper is a short inquiry into the quality of Jack Kerouac’s poetry. Kerouac is an American writer who has maintained an enduring hold on succeeding generations of readers through his long prose works, such as On the Road...
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American Zen
Zen Buddhism is nearly impossible to write about. The use of words and logic to explain Zen are in...
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Somebody Blew Up America: A Conversation with Amiri Baraka
This interview originally appeared in Beatdom #12 – the CRIME issue. You can purchase it on...
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The Beat Rap Sheet
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency,...
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