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The Tangible Absence of Doctor Benway

Posted by Farid Ghadami | Feb 19, 2024 | Essays

From Balloons to Hospitals: Walt Whitman’s Blindness and Insight Earlier this month, as part of...

Posted by Vlae Kershner | Feb 4, 2024 | Essays

One of Jack Kerouac’s closest friends and literary associates in the 1940s was a fellow aspiring...

The mystery of “America” has consumed and eluded generations of creators in equal measure; a...

Posted by David S. Wills | Oct 7, 2023 | Essays

Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now...

Posted by David S. Wills | Jul 4, 2023 | Essays

There are various superficial connections between Elvis Presley and the writers of the Beat...

Jack Kerouac went by more than a few names, not just in his novels, where he used numerous aliases...

Posted by David S. Wills | Jun 15, 2023 | Essays

As someone who has written extensively on the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, I find it quite...

The essay was published in Beatdom #23. It has been posted online to coincide with the...