Little Women
I was only twenty in the fall of 1955 when I sat down to start my first novel. Come and Join the...
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by Joyce Johnson | Apr 17, 2019 | Essays | 4
I was only twenty in the fall of 1955 when I sat down to start my first novel. Come and Join the...
Read Moreby Katie Oates | Feb 25, 2018 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
“The whole Beat scene had very little to do with the participation of women as artists themselves....
Read Moreby M.G. Wessels | Mar 8, 2017 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Dec 16, 2014 | Essays | 0
It’s been an exciting few years for fans of the Beat Generation. Since Beatdom was founded, we...
Read Moreby Katie Stewart | Oct 15, 2014 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #15: the WAR issue. Most of the...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Jul 12, 2014 | Beat News | 0
Joyce Johnson is best-known for her 1983 memoir, Minor Characters, which focuses on the years...
Read Moreby GK Stritch | Apr 24, 2013 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 6
In Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson,...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Mar 15, 2013 | Beatdom Content, Interviews | 2
Joyce Johnson’s role in Beat history is too often viewed simply as that of Jack Kerouac’s...
Read Moreby Michael Hendrick | Oct 16, 2012 | Beatdom Updates | 0
Yes, friends, Beatdom Issue Twelve is on it’s way and today we unveil the cover, featuring...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Mar 1, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1
An exploration of female Beat writers and their involvement with the second-wave feminist movement...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Mar 1, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0
By Karen Baddeley The Lady is a humble thing Made of death and water The fashion is to dress it...
Read Moreby David S. Wills | Feb 17, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 32
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so...
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