Review: The Best Minds of My Generation
There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...
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Reconsidering Jack Kerouac a Half-Century Later
Not many prose writers alive (Céline, Genet, a few others) would dare the freedom and intelligence to trust their own minds, remember they made that jump, not censor it but write it down and discover its beauty. That’s what I...
Read MoreVisions of Winter… Russia… Cody
Hot chocolate . . . delicious Blustery deep freeze winds Cut through cruel canyons of Manhattan...
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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 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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