Loneliness and Waitresses: Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski

15 years ago

By Ardin Lalui Imagine a world without waitresses. Who’d want it? There’s some men have no use for a world…

Poetess and Patriarch

15 years ago

An exploration of female Beat writers and their involvement with the second-wave feminist movement By Lee McRae   ‘American literature…

Romance & the Rolling Stone

15 years ago

As often as possible, I avoid getting into discussions about Bob Dylan and his body of work. There are a few people who…

The Lady is a Humble Thing: Elise Cowen

15 years ago

By Karen Baddeley The Lady is a humble thing Made of death and water The fashion is to dress it…

Carolyn Cassady – Neal, Me and Jack makes three

15 years ago

By Spencer Kansa In 1951, Jack Kerouac began work on a roman-à-clef whose breathless prose would help define an era…

One Space or Two?

15 years ago

Prior to the advent of the typewriter, convention said that one space should be inserted after a period and not…

Banned Books Week & the Beats

16 years ago

A look at this year's Banned Books Week and its relation to the Beat Generation.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute

16 years ago

On October 2nd, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his Beat bookstore and publisher, City Lights, will receive Litquake's 2010 Barbary Award at…

First Thought, Best Thought?

16 years ago

A discussion of the importance of editing.

Howl is Here

16 years ago

A collection of Howl reviews

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