‘Apprentice to an Apprentice’: The Perilous Passage of Terry Wilson
“According to Brion Gysin, I was an Apprentice to an Apprentice and I have never claimed...
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Category: Essays
Eating the Beat Menu
Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...
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Hinduism: A Different Beat
from Beatdom Issue 10 (buy here) by Geetanjali Joshi Mishra and Ravi Mishra * As a religion,...
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Kerouac’s Quiff
In Jack Kerouac’s book Vanity of Duluoz he refers to women as quiffs, which in my estimation, is...
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The Weird Cult: How Scientology Shaped the Writing of William S. Burroughs
Note: This essay inspired the 2013 book, Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the ‘Weird...
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The Genius of Henry Miller
Photo by David S. Wills Henry Miller’s books are like a bowl of French onion soup;...
Read MoreTristessa: Heavengoing
by Paul Arendt Jack Kerouac’s surroundings invariably affected his writing style. Narrator Leo Percepied’s voice in The Subterraneans reflected Kerouac’s emergent interest in psychology, and the author’s vision of the...
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The City Lights Bookstore: the Beatnik’s Mecca
There are few places around the globe that fully encompass all things Beat Generation in the same...
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