New Beat Generation Books 2021
Though Kerouac and Cassady died more than fifty years ago and the Beat heyday was long before...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jan 13, 2021 | Beat News | 0
Though Kerouac and Cassady died more than fifty years ago and the Beat heyday was long before...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 21, 2017 | Essays | 0
The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | May 7, 2017 | Beat News | 1
The Beat Generation are an often misunderstood group of souls. Even figuring out who and what they...
Read Moreby John Burns | Apr 13, 2017 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
The Beat Movement scared the hell out of America. After all, the Beats were dirty, they...
Read Moreby M.G. Wessels | Mar 8, 2017 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Feb 13, 2017 | Essays | 3
On this blog, we’ve previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 30, 2016 | Reviews | 1
There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 15, 2016 | Essays | 1
You might well wonder what a beatnik is or who the Beat Generation were. Many people do… so...
Read Moreby Seth Kupchick | Dec 27, 2015 | Essays | 0
The Beats as we know them are a New York City phenomena and walk hand in hand with Abstract...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 5, 2015 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
In Search of the Origin of Burroughs’ Mythical Trust Fund From Beatdom #16 William S. Burroughs...
Read Moreby Merel van 't Hooft | May 26, 2015 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 3
“If two things are two sides of the same coin, they are very closely related although they seem...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Apr 27, 2015 | Reviews | 0
In 2013 I was asked to review a book called The Stray Bullet, about William S. Burroughs’ years in...
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