Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma

7 years ago

The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said Japhy, “they all got white-tiled toilets…

Daddy’s Girl

7 years ago

Gregory Corso loved Jack Kerouac and Jack loved Joan Haverty, his second wife, loved her at least for a month…

Specificity: The Secret Brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson

7 years ago

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s protagonist, Nick Carraway, describes Jay Gatsby as possessing a smile of the following…

Call for Submissions: Beatdom #20

7 years ago

Next year begins a new decade: the third decade in which this little literary journal has existed. The year will…

Cutting Up the Century: A Review

7 years ago

Ever since the hundredth anniversary of William S. Burroughs’ birth in 2014, there has been a glut of books about…

Review: On Valencia Street

7 years ago

Jack Micheline died twenty-one years ago, but last week I received a copy of his new book, On Valencia Street:…

Reflections on Jack Kerouac’s Favorite Line in Shakespeare

7 years ago

While his student at Naropa Institute in 1977, I heard the poet Gregory Corso  drunkenly inform the entire class that…

Insanity in Ginsberg’s and Epstein’s Howl from a Foucauldian Point of View

7 years ago

…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be…

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

7 years ago

‘Sunflower Sutra’ Ginsberg’s ‘Sunflower Sutra’ bursts with a range of vivid imagery, connecting the pastoral with a landscape of urban…

Allen’s Buddhism

7 years ago

The following is an excerpt from Jacob Rabinowitz’s new book, Blame it on Blake: a memoir of dead languages, gender…

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