Jack Kerouac was a huge inspiration for Bob Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a host of other important writers and artists over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His magnum opus,...
Read MoreNot many prose writers alive (Céline, Genet, a few others) would dare the freedom and intelligence to trust their own minds, remember they made that jump, not censor it but write it down and discover its beauty. That’s what I...
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This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #15: the WAR issue. By Pat Thomas “Black Power:...
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From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...
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Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...
Read MoreBy Noel Dávila On Ginsberg’s anger & kindness, Kerouac’s “homo viator”,...
Read Moreby James D. Irwin It’s about ten past four on a Sunday afternoon. I feel like I’ve been beaten up;...
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The 1960s are associated with what Frank calls ‘the big change, the birthplace of our own culture,...
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