“It was electric”: A conversation with Michael Sharp
By Noel Dávila On Ginsberg’s anger & kindness, Kerouac’s “homo viator”,...
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Posted by David S. Wills | Aug 24, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Interviews
By Noel Dávila On Ginsberg’s anger & kindness, Kerouac’s “homo viator”,...
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by Michael Hendrick I have not reached the point where I will pay for a ring tone on my cell. Just the words “ring,” “tone” and “cell” in the same phrase pisses me off. Once somebody bought me a vanity license plate permit as a...
Read MorePosted by David S. Wills | Aug 23, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays
by James D. Irwin It’s about ten past four on a Sunday afternoon. I feel like I’ve been beaten up;...
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by Ben Simon, My favorite of Bob Dylan’s legendary Basement Tape recordings is probably the most...
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A farewell to a key post-Beat, whose creative life stretched from Warhol’s Factory to Cobain’s...
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A list of Hunter S. Thompson’s favourite music
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One of the great mysteries of the Beat Generation is that of Alene Lee. She is, or rather, was, an enigma. Jack Kerouac wrote about her (as Mardou Fox in The Subterraneans and Irene May in Book of Dreams and Big Sur) but the...
Read MorePosted by David S. Wills | Apr 12, 2010 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry
Searching for silence in Romania Winter in the Eastern Bloc, it’s about 9pm, the night sky outside...
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