Of the Beautiful Alene Lee
It was Paradise Alley so long ago In the alphabet downtown east Lived a subterranean in clouds of...
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by GK Stritch | Aug 1, 2014 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry | 0
It was Paradise Alley so long ago In the alphabet downtown east Lived a subterranean in clouds of...
Read Moreby GK Stritch | Aug 8, 2013 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry | 0
“They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual...
Read Moreby Michael Hendrick | Jul 23, 2012 | Beatdom Updates | 8
Dear Readers, We certainly hope that you like to look at pictures – because this is about as...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Apr 20, 2010 | Beatdom Content | 2
One of the great mysteries of the Beat Generation is that of Alene Lee. She is, or rather, was, an enigma. Jack Kerouac wrote about her (as Mardou Fox in The Subterraneans and Irene May in Book of Dreams and Big Sur) but the...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Feb 17, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 8
Finding Alene–Excerpts by Christina Diamente There is of course no definitive way of knowing a woman who has been dead for almost two decades. Knowing and understanding her in life was equally complicated. Nineteen years...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Feb 17, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 32
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
by Steven O’Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of...
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