Fifty Years After Kerouac
On this date, fifty years ago, Jack Kerouac passed away in St. Petersburg, Florida. The poet and...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Oct 20, 2019 | Beat News | 2 |
On this date, fifty years ago, Jack Kerouac passed away in St. Petersburg, Florida. The poet and...
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 Vincent Zangrillo | Sep 27, 2019 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry | 0 |
Gregory Corso loved Jack Kerouac and Jack loved Joan Haverty, his second wife, loved her at least...
Read Moreby Kirby Olson | Aug 24, 2019 | Essays | 0 |
While his student at Naropa Institute in 1977, I heard the poet Gregory Corso drunkenly inform...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 4, 2018 | Reviews | 0 |
The links between the Beat Generation and music seem obvious, and many of them have been pretty...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 9, 2018 | Reviews | 0 |
Erik Mortenson’s Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey examines the...
Read Moreby Audrey Lent | Jul 5, 2018 | Reviews | 3 |
An artistic and introverted spirit, Jack Kerouac never set out to become the leader of one of the...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Apr 7, 2018 | Reviews | 0 |
Paul Maher Jr has written an intimate, interesting look at the life of Jack Kerouac – not the...
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 David S. Wills | Oct 28, 2017 | Essays | 0 |
For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 21, 2017 | Essays | 0 |
The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Sep 16, 2017 | Essays | 0 |
The writers of the Beat Generation were not just great at composing poems or producing...
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