Ginsberg’s Gay Marriage
We at Beatdom would like to congratulate the people of the United States on an event of monumental...
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The Beat Generation at War
From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...
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Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer
Here at Beatdom we have always had a fondness for Peter Orlovsky, and were surprised and delighted...
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Pulling Our Daisy: The Illusion of Spontaneity
1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs...
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Exiled on Beat Street
In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US...
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Alt Lit as the New Beat Generation
“Do you think in five years the national media will create a stupid term like blogniks to describe...
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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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Hinduism: A Different Beat
from Beatdom Issue 10 (buy here) by Geetanjali Joshi Mishra and Ravi Mishra * As a religion,...
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Death Within a Chrysalis
At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of...
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Many Loves
by Dr Madhu Mehrotra and Geetanjali Joshi Mishra “Resolved to sing no songs henceforth but those...
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Poetess and Patriarch
An exploration of female Beat writers and their involvement with the second-wave feminist movement...
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The Lady is a Humble Thing: Elise Cowen
By Karen Baddeley The Lady is a humble thing Made of death and water The fashion is to dress it...
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