Saint Francis

12 years ago

“I love St. Francis of Assisi as well as anybody in the world.” Desolation Angels Once a sybarite youth and…

Count by Any Other Name

12 years ago

“Basie’s stuff means something.” i Jack Kerouac, Horace Mann Record Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as told…

The Kid from Red Bank

12 years ago

“Count Basie’s swing arrangements are not blaring, but they contain more drive, more power, and more thrill than the loudest…

The Beat Generation at War

12 years ago

  From Beatdom #15 - Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The Beat Generation is often…

Tristessa

12 years ago

Tristessa Black tresses Dirty dresses You mess-a Mucha lucha, Muchacha, señorita Esperanza Junk is a drag “It is a way…

Melvillian Flat

12 years ago

There’s something about this second-floor Red Bank flat that hints of Melville, poor Bartleby scribbling away at his lonely desk,…

Of the Beautiful Alene Lee

12 years ago

It was Paradise Alley so long ago In the alphabet downtown east Lived a subterranean in clouds of strong dark…

Setting Kerouac to Music: An Interview with Kubilay Uner

12 years ago

This article originally appeared in Beatdom #14 - the MOVIE issue.   Kubilay Uner is the composer for the 2013…

From Albion to Shangri-La

12 years ago

From Albion to Shangri-La consists of collected excerpts from Peter Doherty’s journals, circa 2008 to 2013, with an added selection…

“To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” i

12 years ago

The title of the William Butler Yeats poem “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” makes me cringe.…

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