Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma
The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said...
Read Moreby Simon Scott | Oct 4, 2019 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Essays | 2 |
The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said...
Read Moreby Sean Negus | Mar 10, 2018 | Beatdom #18, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |
The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism...
Read Moreby Scott Hartman | Jun 4, 2017 | Essays | 0 |
“From a certain point onward there is no turning back. This is the point that must be reached.”...
Read Moreby Karen Dewar | Jan 23, 2017 | Essays | 0 |
Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least...
Read Moreby Elizabeth Lee Reynolds | Nov 8, 2016 | Beatdom #17, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |
In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an...
Read Moreby Seth Kupchick | Dec 27, 2015 | Essays | 0 |
The Beats as we know them are a New York City phenomena and walk hand in hand with Abstract...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Oct 7, 2015 | Essays | 2 |
October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Mar 3, 2015 | Essays, Features | 1 |
On Dave Moore’s wonderful Beat Generation Facebook group – a partner to the very...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 13, 2014 | Beatdom #15, Beatdom Content, Essays, Features | 3 |
From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Oct 14, 2013 | Beatdom #13, Beatdom Content, Essays, Features | 1 |
by Charlie Canning Photos by John La Farge and David S. Wills Since the Treaty of Kanagawa...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Feb 21, 2013 | Beatdom #12, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |
Zen Buddhism is nearly impossible to write about. The use of words and logic to explain Zen are in...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jan 28, 2012 | Beatdom #10, Beatdom Content, Essays | 1 |
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...
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