Allen Ginsberg and the FBI (and Secret Service)
In 1965 Allen Ginsberg flew to Cuba as part of a major poetry event hosted by the Casa de las...
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Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix: Out to Lunch with William Burroughs
It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of...
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Martin Torgoff and John Tytell: Bop Apocalypse
In the above video, Beatdom Books author John Tytell talks with Martin Torgoff, whose new book,...
Read More Review: Bop Apocalypse
Martin Torgoff’s Bop Apocalypse (not to be confused with the similarly titled The Bop Apocalypse,...
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A Negative Score on the Happiness List: The Economics of Hustling in Bonnie Bremser’s For Love of Ray
Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on...
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Interview with Tom Huckabee: Taking Tiger Mountain
By Adrien Clerc The story of the making of Taking Tiger Mountain is one of the strangest a...
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On Bitch Magazine’s Response to Joan’s Death
One of our readers, Devin Fahey, recently posted a link to the Beatdom FB page. The link was to a...
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Fact and Fiction in Fear and Loathing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is now...
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Drugstore Cowboy
Is this a punk flick? Maybe a beat-punk film? Celluloid where punk and beat meet? Characters are...
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The Beat Rap Sheet
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency,...
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Billy Burroughs: Gentleman Farmer
The notion of Burroughs as a farmer – even an inept one – may not sit right with readers of...
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