The Flying Dutchman:
An Overview of LeRoi Jones’ Greatest Commentary on the Struggle of the Black Man and Racial...
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World Citizen: How Politics Shaped the Travels of Allen Ginsberg, and How Travel Shaped his Politics
This essay first appeared in Beatdom #17, which you can find on Amazon. As a child, Allen Ginsberg...
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How the Beats Influenced Today’s Literary Hipsters
The Beat Generation as a whole inhabits a polarized yet celebrated space in American literature....
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Beats or Beatniks
You might well wonder what a beatnik is or who the Beat Generation were. Many people do… so...
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Prophecy in Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is the book that catapulted William S. Burroughs from a minor author and figure of...
Read MoreFamous Writers Who Didn’t Like Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was a huge inspiration for Bob Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, and a host of other important writers and artists over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His magnum opus,...
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Turtle Island: An Eco-Critique of Capitalism
In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an...
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Ginsberg and the Machinery of Capitalism: A Political Reading of Howl
In this essay, I use a Marxist lens to examine Allen Ginsberg’s controversial and groundbreaking...
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