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Ginsberg’s Gay Marriage

by David S. Wills | Jun 27, 2015 | Beat News | 0 |

We at Beatdom would like to congratulate the people of the United States on an event of monumental...

The Beat Generation at War

by David S. Wills | Sep 13, 2014 | Beatdom #15, Beatdom Content, Essays, Features | 3 |

From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...

Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer

by David S. Wills | Apr 14, 2014 | Beat News | 1 |

Here at Beatdom we have always had a fondness for Peter Orlovsky, and were surprised and delighted...

Pulling Our Daisy: The Illusion of Spontaneity

by David S. Wills | Apr 11, 2014 | Beatdom #14, Beatdom Content, Essays, Features | 0 |

1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs...

Exiled on Beat Street

by Daryl Marc Clifford | Feb 17, 2014 | Essays | 0 |

In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US...

Alt Lit as the New Beat Generation

by David S. Wills | Sep 9, 2013 | Essays, Features | 7 |

“Do you think in five years the national media will create a stupid term like blogniks to describe...

A Few Words From Patti Smith On Writing and Beats

by David S. Wills | Aug 11, 2012 | Beatdom Content, Features, Interviews | 2 |

On May 15, Patti Smith told us about her new record, Banga, and some of the source for the title...

Hinduism: A Different Beat

by David S. Wills | Mar 27, 2012 | Beatdom #10, Beatdom Content, Essays | 1 |

from Beatdom Issue 10 (buy here) by Geetanjali Joshi Mishra and Ravi Mishra * As a religion,...

Death Within a Chrysalis

by Nick Meador | Oct 24, 2011 | Beatdom #9, Beatdom Content, Essays | 2 |

At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of...

Many Loves

by David S. Wills | Apr 19, 2011 | Beatdom #8, Beatdom Content, Essays | 2 |

by Dr Madhu Mehrotra and Geetanjali Joshi Mishra “Resolved to sing no songs henceforth but those...

Poetess and Patriarch

by David S. Wills | Mar 1, 2011 | Beatdom #8, Beatdom Content, Essays | 1 |

An exploration of female Beat writers and their involvement with the second-wave feminist movement...

The Lady is a Humble Thing: Elise Cowen

by David S. Wills | Mar 1, 2011 | Beatdom #8, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

By Karen Baddeley The Lady is a humble thing Made of death and water The fashion is to dress it...

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