A Sixty-Year History of The Rum Diary
Sixty years ago, on June 26th, 1960, an article with an odd title appeared in the Louisville...
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Beatdom #20 is on Sale
I am really happy to be able to say that Beatdom #20 is now – finally – on sale. We...
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What to Expect from Beatdom# 20
For the past few months, the world has been in turmoil. Life has been turned upside down for many...
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Specificity: The Secret Brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s protagonist, Nick Carraway, describes Jay Gatsby as...
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Enter the Freak Kingdom
Hunter S. Thompson was no Beat writer but as an important figure in 20th century countercultural...
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From Fitzgerald’s Green Light to Thompson’s Wave
Hunter S. Thompson is one of those literary figures who, like the Beat Generation writers, divides...
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Aldous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson: From Loathing and Fear to Fear and Loathing
What do Aldous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson have in common? Both were great writers, of course....
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Gonzo Personas: Hunter S. Thompson and John G. Clancy
This article first appeared in Beatdom #17. A little over 10 years ago—February 20,...
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Hunter S. Thompson Translated into Chinese
In the past few months, we’ve brought you news about Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and...
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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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American Mutants Spawned in the Bunker
Originally published in Beatdom #14, and excerpted from the forthcoming memoir/scrapbook,...
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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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