Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #20. Hunter S. Thompson was never part of the Beat...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Oct 19, 2020 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #20. Hunter S. Thompson was never part of the Beat...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Aug 11, 2020 | Reviews | 0 |
The Hell’s Angels Letters Last year, I had the pleasure of reading Margaret Ann Harrell’s Keep...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jun 26, 2020 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |
Sixty years ago, on June 26th, 1960, an article with an odd title appeared in the Louisville...
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I am really happy to be able to say that Beatdom #20 is now – finally – on sale. We...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | May 19, 2020 | Beatdom Updates | 0 |
For the past few months, the world has been in turmoil. Life has been turned upside down for many...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 24, 2019 | Essays | 0 |
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s protagonist, Nick Carraway, describes Jay Gatsby as...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | May 27, 2019 | Reviews | 0 |
Hunter S. Thompson was no Beat writer but as an important figure in 20th century countercultural...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 27, 2018 | Essays | 2 |
Hunter S. Thompson is one of those literary figures who, like the Beat Generation writers, divides...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jul 2, 2017 | Essays | 1 |
What do Aldous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson have in common? Both were great writers, of course....
Read Moreby Frederic B. Wildfang | Apr 24, 2017 | Beatdom #17, Beatdom Content, Essays | 1 |
This article first appeared in Beatdom #17. A little over 10 years ago—February 20,...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 27, 2016 | Beat News | 0 |
In the past few months, we’ve brought you news about Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Nov 28, 2016 | Essays | 0 |
Jack Kerouac was a huge inspiration for Bob Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a host of other important writers and artists over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His magnum opus,...
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