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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Tag: joan vollmer
Naked Tea Now on Sale
Philip Willey is one beat motherfucker. His website tells me he was born in England in 1941, but I...
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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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The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico
In 1995 a scholar named Jorge Garcia-Robles wrote a long essay about William S. Burroughs’ time in...
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The Weird Cult: How Scientology Shaped the Writing of William S. Burroughs
Note: This essay inspired the 2013 book, Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the ‘Weird...
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The Beat Generation and Travel
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have...
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by Steven O’Sullivan It’s like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a rush to articulate themselves. But maybe we just can’t articulate certain emotions. Maybe...
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Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable
by David S. Wills The novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen: it has...
Read MoreVisions of Vollmer
by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation, and we obviously talked a little about Joan Vollmer. However, we didn’t say enough to do her justice, for she was a fascinating...
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Women of the Beat Generation
History has not been kind to the women of the Beat Generation. During the Beat era, they were...
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A few classic Beat Generation stories.
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Know Your Beats
A very brief guide to the players of the Beat Generation.
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