The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation
The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism...
Read More
Tag: Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder: Heart-Beat – A Diptych
“From a certain point onward there is no turning back. This is the point that must be reached.”...
Read More
Buddhists and Dharma Bums
Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least...
Read More
Turtle Island: An Eco-Critique of Capitalism
In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an...
Read More
East Coast Beats vs. West Coast Beats
The Beats as we know them are a New York City phenomena and walk hand in hand with Abstract...
Read More
Sixty Years After the Six Gallery Reading
October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that...
Read More
The Dharma Bums: Judging a Book by its Cover
On Dave Moore’s wonderful Beat Generation Facebook group – a partner to the very...
Read More
The Beat Generation at War
From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...
Read More
The Second Wave of American Interest in Japanese Culture: Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder
by Charlie Canning Photos by John La Farge and David S. Wills Since the Treaty of Kanagawa...
Read More
American Zen
Zen Buddhism is nearly impossible to write about. The use of words and logic to explain Zen are in...
Read MoreTristessa: Heavengoing
by Paul Arendt Jack Kerouac’s surroundings invariably affected his writing style. Narrator Leo Percepied’s voice in The Subterraneans reflected Kerouac’s emergent interest in psychology, and the author’s vision of the...
Read MoreSubmissions Now Open for Nature Issue
As we move towards our 5th anniversary (that’s in May, folks, get ready to celebrate!) Beatdom is putting together its eleventh issue. The theme of this upcoming issue is Nature. That’s right, another fairly obvious topic,...
Read More
Our Most Recent Book:
Popular Articles
-
Women of the Beat Generation
-
Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan
-
Who’s Who: A Guide to Kerouac’s Characters
-
Modern Beat: Tom Waits
-
Beats or Beatniks
-
Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee
-
The Beats and the Beatles: two sides of the same coin
-
What is the Beat Generation?
-
The Beats & Sixties Counterculture
-
Hunter S. Thompson – Gonzo Frontiersman