“A Fleeting Moment in a Floating World”: The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes
“The whole Beat scene had very little to do with the participation of women as artists themselves....
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Reconsidering the Importance of the Joan Anderson Letter
It’s been an exciting few years for fans of the Beat Generation. Since Beatdom was founded, we...
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Neal Cassady Birthday Bash
5th ANNUAL DENVER NEAL CASSADY BIRTHDAY BASH FEBRUARY 7th The Fifth Annual Neal Cassady Birthday...
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The Town and the City
The Town and the City is a complete joy, Jack Kerouac’s holiday present to the world. As the New...
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Carolyn Cassady, 1923 – 2013
Today the Beat community was saddened to hear of the death of Carolyn Cassady. Carolyn is...
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The Last Man Standing: Al Hinkle
The name Al Hinkle should be familiar to most readers of Beatdom, and if it isn’t then they’ll...
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Eating the Beat Menu
Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...
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Carolyn Cassady – Neal, Me and Jack makes three
By Spencer Kansa In 1951, Jack Kerouac began work on a roman-à-clef whose breathless prose would...
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The Beat Generation and Travel
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have...
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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...
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Recent history has seen the women in the life of Jack Kerouac finally bring to public attention...
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Monday 17 September 2007 18.30 – 20.00 British Library Conference Centre ____________________________ I was outside the British Library Conference Centre (which is over to the right of the main Library entrance) when Carolyn...
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