by Alene Lee Catherine was sick. They were going to put her in a hospital. The doctor thought electric…
Finding Alene--Excerpts by Christina Diamente There is of course no definitive way of knowing a woman who has been dead…
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so beautifully her soul…
A few essays on William S. Burroughs, cut-up into a Burroughsesque cut-up mess...
“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . . . Well,…
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in…
by Steven O'Sullivan It's like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a…
Perhaps the most exciting movie of 2010 for Beatdom readers is ‘Howl’, a 1950s era feature film about Allen Ginsberg’s…
“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack…
Recent history has seen the women in the life of Jack Kerouac finally bring to public attention their side of…
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