Fact and Fiction in Fear and Loathing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is now...
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A Few Words From Patti Smith On Writing and Beats
On May 15, Patti Smith told us about her new record, Banga, and some of the source for the title...
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Happy Birthday to Mikhail Bulgakov, from Patti Smith and Beatdom!
On May 15, 1891, Mikhail Bulgakov was born. Today, also May 15, Patti Smith was kind enough to...
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Review: The Rum Diary (2011)
Review by Jamie Pinnock Over a decade following his psychedelic explosion onto the silver-screen...
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Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman Movies
Folks, you’ve probably heard. We’ve pushed it on our Facebook page and our Twitter...
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Sympathy for the Devil? Reconsidering the Legend of Raoul Duke on the 40th Anniversary of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Rory Feehan “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”...
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Big Sur: The Movie
This past year has been kind to fans of the Beat Generation. First there was “Howl”,...
Read MoreThe Battle for Kerouac’s Estate
“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack Kerouac, 238th Chorus, Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969, of cirrhosis of the liver. By the...
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Fact and Fiction in Fear and Loathing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is now...
Read MoreSaving Bukowski’s Bungalow
Bukowski’s long gone, though his Bungalow still stands, but not for long unless we DO something about it! A few years back Mrs Benway and I went to Key West where we saw Ernest Hemingway’s house, writing studio and a...
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