The Beat Generation and Mental Hospitals
The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were...
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The Beats in Greece
As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that...
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I’m Watching You Watching Me: The Inversion of the Gaze in Ginsberg’s Photographs
“You never look at me from the place from which I see you.” – Jacques Lacan Introduction: The...
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Review: The Best Minds of My Generation
There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...
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Sarpedon: A Play by Gregory Corso
Prior to the publication of his first collection of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other...
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The Beat Generation at War
From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...
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American Mutants Spawned in the Bunker
Originally published in Beatdom #14, and excerpted from the forthcoming memoir/scrapbook,...
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Pulling Our Daisy: The Illusion of Spontaneity
1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs...
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The Beat Generation, it seems, dominated American culture between two major wars. The history...
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Exiled on Beat Street
In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US...
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Chelsea’s Ghosts Revisited
For literary types and students of Beat history who intend to invest a few cool million in real...
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Drinking from the Beat Menu
Jack Kerouac Gin, whiskey, beer, cognac, and wine According to his biographer, Michael...
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