Allegories from the Cave: Burroughs and Trocchi – a Platonic Love
‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often...
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by Cal Barlow | Mar 5, 2020 | Essays | 3
‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often...
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In 1965 Allen Ginsberg flew to Cuba as part of a major poetry event hosted by the Casa de las...
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It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of...
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In the above video, Beatdom Books author John Tytell talks with Martin Torgoff, whose new book,...
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Martin Torgoff’s Bop Apocalypse (not to be confused with the similarly titled The Bop Apocalypse,...
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Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on...
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By Adrien Clerc The story of the making of Taking Tiger Mountain is one of the strangest a...
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One of our readers, Devin Fahey, recently posted a link to the Beatdom FB page. The link was to a...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is now...
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Is this a punk flick? Maybe a beat-punk film? Celluloid where punk and beat meet? Characters are...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 22, 2012 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 2
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency,...
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The notion of Burroughs as a farmer – even an inept one – may not sit right with readers of...
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