Remembering Jay DeFeo
I hopped the BART train for the short ride under the bay from Fremont to San Francisco. It was...
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6 Places Where the Beats Hung Out
The world was a different place in post-war America. Suburbs were scant, malls were unheard of,...
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Sixty Years After the Six Gallery Reading
October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that...
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“A Fish With Frog’s Eyes”: Bob Kaufman, George Romero and the Power of Radioactivity
By Kurt Kline In the poetry of Bob Kaufman, the poet is the healer, journeying down...
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The Last Man Standing: Al Hinkle
The name Al Hinkle should be familiar to most readers of Beatdom, and if it isn’t then they’ll...
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Happy Birthday, Jack
Today would’ve been Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday. Although he’s been dead a long...
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The City Lights Bookstore: the Beatnik’s Mecca
There are few places around the globe that fully encompass all things Beat Generation in the same...
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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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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...
Read MoreLawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute
On October 2nd, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his Beat bookstore and publisher, City Lights, will receive Litquake’s 2010 Barbary Award at Herbst Theater. The celebration will be attended by Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Lenny...
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HST & the Music of the Sixties
Illustration Isaac Bonan Words by David S. Wills From Beatdom #7. Music has always been a matter...
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The Beat Generation and Travel
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have...
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