Kerouac: The Buddhist Years
I. “The Heart of the World” Charles Shuttleworth has done a remarkable job of excavating gem after...
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by Marc Olmsted | Apr 3, 2025 | Reviews | 0
I. “The Heart of the World” Charles Shuttleworth has done a remarkable job of excavating gem after...
Read Moreby Charles Shuttleworth | Feb 28, 2025 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
I’ve always gravitated to Jack Kerouac’s more spiritual nature—his thoughts on the big questions...
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 | May 27, 2024 | Reviews | 0
Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds is the latest book by Anne Waldman. It is a short collection of...
Read Moreby Marc Olmsted | Mar 3, 2023 | Reviews | 1
He was a hipster darling to reference on college campuses in the late 50s of the last century....
Read Moreby Jacob Rabinowitz | Jun 22, 2019 | Essays | 0
The following is an excerpt from Jacob Rabinowitz’s new book, Blame it on Blake: a memoir of dead...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | May 12, 2018 | Essays | 0
Asia had long been a source of inspiration and fascination for Allen Ginsberg by the time he...
Read Moreby Sean Negus | Mar 10, 2018 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism...
Read Moreby Scott Hartman | Jun 4, 2017 | Essays | 1
“From a certain point onward there is no turning back. This is the point that must be reached.”...
Read Moreby Karen Dewar | Jan 23, 2017 | Essays | 0
Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Mar 3, 2015 | Essays | 1
On Dave Moore’s wonderful Beat Generation Facebook group – a partner to the very...
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by Charlie Canning Photos by John La Farge and David S. Wills Since the Treaty of Kanagawa...
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