Category: Essays

What Can Be Learned from Charles Bukowski

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 3, 2011 | Essays

On the peripheral edge of the Beat Movement sits Charles Bukowski. Lauded as all manner of things...

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Death Within a Chrysalis

Posted by Nick Meador | Oct 24, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of...

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Sympathy for the Devil? Reconsidering the Legend of Raoul Duke on the 40th Anniversary of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Posted by David S. Wills | Aug 1, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Rory Feehan “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”...

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From Ganja to God

Posted by David S. Wills | May 28, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Geetanjali Joshi Mishra Beatdom Issue 9 They are unmistakable: roughly kept beards,...

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Many Loves

Posted by David S. Wills | Apr 19, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Dr Madhu Mehrotra and Geetanjali Joshi Mishra “Resolved to sing no songs henceforth but those...

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Gregory Corso: Poet of the Streets

Posted by David S. Wills | Apr 15, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by James Lough Illustration by Isaac Bonan If the first string of the Beat writers featured Jack...

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Loneliness and Waitresses: Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski

Posted by David S. Wills | Mar 29, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

By Ardin Lalui Imagine a world without waitresses. Who’d want it? There’s some men have no use for...

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Poetess and Patriarch

Posted by David S. Wills | Mar 1, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

An exploration of female Beat writers and their involvement with the second-wave feminist movement...

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