Mark Murphy/ Bop for Kerouac
“I want to be considered a jazz poet . . .” i Don’t miss Mark Murphy’s 1981 recording “Bop for...
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Subterranean Lost Love
“They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual...
Read MoreTristessa: Heavengoing
by Paul Arendt Jack Kerouac’s surroundings invariably affected his writing style. Narrator Leo Percepied’s voice in The Subterraneans reflected Kerouac’s emergent interest in psychology, and the author’s vision of the...
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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...
Read MoreFinding Alene
Finding Alene–Excerpts by Christina Diamente There is of course no definitive way of knowing a woman who has been dead for almost two decades. Knowing and understanding her in life was equally complicated. Nineteen years...
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Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so...
Read MoreLady Beats
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in one anthology as “Poet Priestess,” she is one of the more well-known of these women. My introduction to her large...
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Alene Lee – Subterranean Muse
by Steven O’Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of...
Read MoreVisions of Vollmer
by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation, and we obviously talked a little about Joan Vollmer. However, we didn’t say enough to do her justice, for she was a fascinating...
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The Life of Gregory Corso
The life of Gregory Corso
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