John Clellon Holmes’ Existentialist Dilemma
Photo Copyright 2022 Mellon Tytell In her essay, “John Clellon Holmes and Existentialism”, Ann...
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Category: Essays
Here To Go & Back Again: The Lives & Arts of Brion Gysin
If Brion Gysin had not existed, it probably would have been necessary to invent him, as the saying...
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East Coast Beats vs. West Coast Beats
The Beats as we know them are a New York City phenomena and walk hand in hand with Abstract...
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“Telling All The Road”: Re-Reading On the Road as New Journalism
From On the Road’s initial publication in 1957 to the release of its original scroll manuscript in...
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Beaten White
The Beat Generation found itself mystified by the black culture of the time. This mystification...
Read MoreReconsidering Jack Kerouac a Half-Century Later
Not many prose writers alive (Céline, Genet, a few others) would dare the freedom and intelligence to trust their own minds, remember they made that jump, not censor it but write it down and discover its beauty. That’s what I...
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Sixty Years After the Six Gallery Reading
October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that...
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A Negative Score on the Happiness List: The Economics of Hustling in Bonnie Bremser’s For Love of Ray
Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on...
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