Review: Beat Blues: San Francisco, 1955
Beat Blues is the latest book by Jonah Raskin, author of the wonderful American Scream: Allen...
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Review: The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry
The latest in Clemson University’s Beat Studies series is The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes...
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Review: Fear and Loathing in Aspen
The life and work of Hunter S. Thompson has long appealed to filmmakers, yet no one has entirely...
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Review: The Beats, by Steven Belletto
In 2020, Cambridge University Press published The Beats: A Literary History, by Steven Belletto,...
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The Beats: A Teaching Companion
Clemson University and the Beat Studies Association have been working together on a series of...
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The Fall of America Journals 1965-1971: a Meta-Review
Plymell and his friends inventing the Wichita Vortex contribute to a tradition stretching back…to...
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Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
In his recent book, Straight Around Allen, Bob Rosenthal begins a chapter with this statement:...
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Ginsberg Goes Behind Enemy Lines: A Review of Iron Curtain Journals
In 1965, Allen Ginsberg jumped at the chance to peek behind enemy lines with a visit to communist...
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Angry Young Men Become Nice Old Men: A Review of Don’t Hide the Madness
In March, 1992, Allen Ginsberg visited his old friend, William S. Burroughs, at his home in...
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The Revised Boy Scout Manual: Burroughs on Fake News and Scientology
Ohio State University Press has recently published a “lost masterpiece” by William S. Burroughs,...
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Review: Translating the Counterculture
Erik Mortenson’s Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey examines the...
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After Me, The Deluge: Considering Kerouac’s Final Statement
An artistic and introverted spirit, Jack Kerouac never set out to become the leader of one of the...
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