War Upon War: The Second-Generation Beats and Postmemory
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #15: the WAR issue. Most of the...
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Category: Essays
The Beat Generation at War
From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...
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Melvillian Flat
There’s something about this second-floor Red Bank flat that hints of Melville, poor Bartleby...
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“To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” i
The title of the William Butler Yeats poem “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” makes me...
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The Greatest Road Movie Never Made
Brando should have played Dean; Jack’s 1957 letter to Marlon asking him to buy the film...
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Storming the Reality Studio with Uncle Bill: Some Thoughts on William S. Burroughs and the Movies
From Beatdom #14 Until really quite recently, of the “big names” that one thinks of in...
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Bloomsday Thoughts: Kerouac & Joyce
“In those days I was writing a Joyce-like novel in which I was the Dedalus; and called...
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Howl (2010) – How to Adapt a Beat Classic
By Michelle Rudolf From Beatdom #14 The 2010 movie, Howl, an adaptation of Allen...
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