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The Beats Gave Birth to Modern Hipsters

Posted by Karen Dewar | Feb 21, 2017 | Essays

The generally accepted definition of the word “hipster” in 2017 is a young, non-traditional,...

Posted by David S. Wills | Feb 13, 2017 | Essays

On this blog, we’ve previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the...

Posted by Karen Dewar | Jan 23, 2017 | Essays

Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least...

An Overview of LeRoi Jones’ Greatest Commentary on the Struggle of the Black Man and Racial...

This essay first appeared in Beatdom #17, which you can find on Amazon. As a child, Allen Ginsberg...

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 21, 2016 | Essays

The Beat Generation as a whole inhabits a polarized yet celebrated space in American literature....

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 15, 2016 | Essays

You might well wonder what a beatnik is or who the Beat Generation were. Many people do… so...

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 10, 2016 | Essays

Naked Lunch is the book that catapulted William S. Burroughs from a minor author and figure of...