Eating the Beat Menu
Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...
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by Nick Meador | Jul 3, 2012 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Aug 1, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 3
by Rory Feehan “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Aug 24, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 14
Illustration Isaac Bonan Words by David S. Wills From Beatdom #7. Music has always been a matter...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack Kerouac, 238th Chorus, Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969, of cirrhosis of the liver. By the...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jul 9, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 4
Note: This essay was hugely expanded in 2020. The new version is found here. Hunter S. Thompson was no Beatnik. For one thing, he was too late. By the time he was knocking out Gonzo journalism, Kerouac had died, the hippies had...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jan 13, 2008 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 3
by David S. Wills Hunter never really liked Jack Kerouac’s On the Road — he thought the writing was kind of sloppy and romantic and oversentimental but he told me he thought Kerouac was a genius for two things: discovering...
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