Eating the Beat Menu
Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...
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Death Within a Chrysalis
At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of...
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Long John Silver and the Beats
by Wayne Mullins Many people ask what are the Beatles? Why Beatles? Ugh, Beatles how did...
Read MorePeter Orlovsky Obituary
On May 30th, 2010, Peter Orlovsky died at the age of 76. He is best known as the long-time partner...
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Review of the Dharma Bums
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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...
Read MoreJack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard
By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s prolonged meditation on his older, saintly brother Gerard, who died at the age of nine (Jack was four at...
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