Of the Beautiful Alene Lee
It was Paradise Alley so long ago In the alphabet downtown east Lived a subterranean in clouds of...
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Posted by GK Stritch | Aug 1, 2014 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry
It was Paradise Alley so long ago In the alphabet downtown east Lived a subterranean in clouds of...
Read MorePosted by GK Stritch | Aug 8, 2013 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry
“They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual...
Read MorePosted by Michael Hendrick | Jul 23, 2012 | Beatdom Updates
Dear Readers, We certainly hope that you like to look at pictures – because this is about as...
Read MorePosted by David S. Wills | Apr 20, 2010 | Beatdom Content
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 | Feb 17, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays
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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