Beatdom Books

In 2007, with the creation of Beatdom literary journal, the editors formed a company called Mauling Press. A little later, we changed its name to City of Recovery Press (CoRP) and expanded from publishing Beatdom to become a general publishing company. In 2010 we became Beatdom Books and began a semi-regular publishing schedule. At present, we aim to publish one book and one edition fo the journal per year.

For more than a decade, we have published books about the Beat Generation, which can be found as paperbacks or Amazon Kindle editions here. They are also available through other retailers, including Water Row Books. We have a Bookshop listing here.

Whilst some of our books are now out of print, most are still available and we continue to publish works that shed new light on Beat literature and related countercultural movements.

We aim to publish books that are what we term “semi-academic.” This means that they are typically areas of academic interest but written in accessible ways and published at prices that make them available to the general public. We see no benefit in making Beat Studies an exclusionary field. To further the Beat legacy, we will continue to publish high-quality books at competitive prices, written in a style that is enjoyable yet informative.

Our Publications

Title	Author	ISBN	Publication Date	Buy Link
The Clinic	Kyle Chase	–	2010	Out of Print
Zoning	Spencer Kansa	978-0-9569525-0-9	2011	Buy
The Dog Farm	David S. Wills	978-0-9569525-1-6	2011	Buy
Beat Poetry	Larry Beckett	978-0-9569525-3-0	2012	Buy
Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the ‘Weird Cult’	David S. Wills	978-0-9569525-2-3	2013	Buy
The Third Kind of Horse	Michelle Auerbach	978-0-9569525-4-7	2013	Out of Print
The Sane Asylum	Allison Whittenberg	978-0-9569525-5-4	2013	Out of Print
Wood Splinters	Cia Mathew	978-0-9569525-6-1	2013	Out of Print
Don’t Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg ’73 Through ’97	Marc Olmsted	978-0-9569525-7-8	2014	Buy
Under These Stars	Tony Rodriguez	978-0-9569525-8-5	2014	Buy
The Beat Interviews	John Tytell	978-0-9569525-9-2	2014	Buy
The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg	Eliot Katz	978-0-9934099-0-5	2015	Buy
Beat Transnationalism	John Tytell	978-0-9934099-1-2	2017	Buy
Did Beatniks Kill John F. Kennedy?: Bongo Joe’s Requiem for the President	Rob Johnson	978-0-9934099-2-9	2017	Buy
Off the Road and Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Mickey Harper	978-0-9934099-3-6	2017	Buy
Straight Around Allen	Bob Rosenthal	978-0-9934099-4-3	2018	Buy
The Buddhist Beat Poets of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel	Max Orsini	978-0-9934099-5-0	2018	Buy
World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller	David S. Wills	978-0-9934099-6-7	2019	Buy
Burroughs and Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients: The Commitment of Exile	Chris Kelso	978-0-9934099-7-4	2021	Buy
High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism	David S. Wills	978-0-9934099-8-1	2021	Buy
Thomas Merton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Protection of All Beings	Bill Morgan	978-0-9934099-9-8	2022	Buy
The Burroughs-Warhol Connection	Victor Bockris		2024

Submissions

We are looking for books about the lives and work of Beat Generation artists. No fiction or poetry. Sorry, but it is too hard for us to promote these and we focus now exclusively on non-fiction Beat Studies work that we can promote more effectively.

E-mail queries to David S. Wills at editor [at] beatdom (dot) com.