Finding Alene
Finding Alene–Excerpts by Christina Diamente There is of course no definitive way of knowing a woman who has been dead for almost two decades. Knowing and understanding her in life was equally complicated. Nineteen years...
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Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so...
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Naked Lunch at Fifty
“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . ....
Read MoreLady Beats
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in one anthology as “Poet Priestess,” she is one of the more well-known of these women. My introduction to her large...
Read MoreVisions of Burroughs
by Steven O’Sullivan It’s like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a rush to articulate themselves. But maybe we just can’t articulate certain emotions. Maybe...
Read MoreThe Howl Interview
Perhaps the most exciting movie of 2010 for Beatdom readers is ‘Howl’, a 1950s era feature film...
Read MoreThe Battle for Kerouac’s Estate
“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack Kerouac, 238th Chorus, Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969, of cirrhosis of the liver. By the...
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