Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable

16 years ago

by David S. Wills The novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen: it has dozens of…

Do the Beats Matter Today?

16 years ago

by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the…

The Sea is my Brother

17 years ago

Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat…

The Breton Traveller

17 years ago

Jack Kerouac’s Search for his Roots Much has been written about Kerouac's apparent rootlessness being the driving force behind his…

Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard

17 years ago

By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s…

Alene Lee – Subterranean Muse

17 years ago

by Steven O'Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of Irene May from Big…

Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

17 years ago

by Dave Moore It was Horst who started it. Horst Spandler has been translating the 1971 Kerouac anthology Scattered Poems…

Visions of Vollmer

17 years ago

by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation,…

The Beats & Sixties Counterculture

17 years ago

The 1960s are associated with what Frank calls ‘the big change, the birthplace of our own culture, the homeland of…

Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway Review No Country for Old Men

17 years ago

by Matt Gibson Hunter S. Thompson The theatre was dark and reeked with the stench of a hundred overfed accountants…

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