Corso Preferred America
Scholar Glenn Sheldon puts Beat poet Gregory Corso on trial in his book, South of Our Selves:...
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4 Important Travel Destinations for the Beat Generation
The Beats were, in many ways, an international literary movement. Although in defining the Beat...
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Beat Transnationalism Event
On October 4th, Howl! Happening is holding a publication party for John Tytell’s new book,...
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Early Praise for Beat Transnationalism
Next month, Beatdom Books will release John Tytell’s collection of essays and letters, Beat...
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A Negative Score on the Happiness List: The Economics of Hustling in Bonnie Bremser’s For Love of Ray
Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on...
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At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico
In 2013 I was asked to review a book called The Stray Bullet, about William S. Burroughs’ years in...
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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...
Read MoreTristessa: Heavengoing
by Paul Arendt Jack Kerouac’s surroundings invariably affected his writing style. Narrator Leo Percepied’s voice in The Subterraneans reflected Kerouac’s emergent interest in psychology, and the author’s vision of the...
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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A few classic Beat Generation stories.
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