One Man Practicing Kindness Alone in the Wilderness

11 years ago

An interview with Bevin Richardson about his alternative The Dharma Bums book made from a seven 1.5 meter scroll painted in…

Reconsidering Jack Kerouac a Half-Century Later

11 years ago

Not many prose writers alive (Céline, Genet, a few others) would dare the freedom and intelligence to trust their own…

The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg

11 years ago

To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading - at which Allen Ginsberg first read from his poem,…

Sixty Years After the Six Gallery Reading

11 years ago

October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that date, in a “run…

A Negative Score on the Happiness List: The Economics of Hustling in Bonnie Bremser’s For Love of Ray

11 years ago

Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on travellers. Poverty…

The Burroughs Millions

11 years ago

In Search of the Origin of Burroughs’ Mythical Trust Fund From Beatdom #16 William S. Burroughs was always quick to…

Review: Paul Bunyan, by Larry Beckett

11 years ago

Larry Beckett is generally best-known as a songwriter, yet probably better known to Beatdom readers as the author of Beat…

Naked Performativity: Examining the Work of William Burroughs

11 years ago

“When you look back over a year on the junk, it seems like no time at all” — William Burroughs,…

Ginsberg’s Gay Marriage

11 years ago

We at Beatdom would like to congratulate the people of the United States on an event of monumental importance. Today,…

The Beats and the Beatles: two sides of the same coin

11 years ago

“If two things are two sides of the same coin, they are very closely related although they seem different” -…

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