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Subterranean Lost Love

by GK Stritch | Aug 8, 2013 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry | 0

“They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual...

Alene Lee

by David S. Wills | Apr 20, 2010 | Beatdom Content | 2

One of the great mysteries of the Beat Generation is that of Alene Lee. She is, or rather, was, an enigma. Jack Kerouac wrote about her (as Mardou Fox in The Subterraneans and Irene May in Book of Dreams and Big Sur) but the...

Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee

by David S. Wills | Feb 17, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 32

The following is an excerpt from an unpublished book/thesis written by Alene Lee’s daughter....

Alene Lee – Subterranean Muse

by David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 1

Note: The only known piece of Alene Lee’s published writing can be found here. It is a short...

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