We recently passed a watershed moment in modern American literature, as November, 2012, marked sixty years since John Clellon Holmes…
David S. Wills' ground-breaking text, Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult' is now available on Amazon as both…
Joyce Johnson’s role in Beat history is too often viewed simply as that of Jack Kerouac’s girlfriend. There is surprise…
“He made an effort to hold down a regular job, but he was a terrible employee and didn’t seem to…
This paper is a short inquiry into the quality of Jack Kerouac’s poetry. Kerouac is an American writer who has…
“You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.” Remark made by Lucien…
In the seventies and eighties, William S. Burroughs began to tour America doing public readings. These were, to him, performances.…
Zen Buddhism is nearly impossible to write about. The use of words and logic to explain Zen are in opposition…
This interview originally appeared in Beatdom #12 - the CRIME issue. You can purchase it on Amazon and Kindle. Amiri…
Is this a punk flick? Maybe a beat-punk film? Celluloid where punk and beat meet? Characters are beat, get beaten,…
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