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Lady Beats

by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in…

16 years ago

Visions of Burroughs

by Steven O'Sullivan It's like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a…

16 years ago

The Howl Interview

Perhaps the most exciting movie of 2010 for Beatdom readers is ‘Howl’, a 1950s era feature film about Allen Ginsberg’s…

16 years ago

The 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…

16 years ago

Helen Weaver Interview

Recent history has seen the women in the life of Jack Kerouac finally bring to public attention their side of…

16 years ago

Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable

by David S. Wills The novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen: it has dozens of…

16 years ago

Do the Beats Matter Today?

by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the…

16 years ago

Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard

By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s…

16 years ago

Alene Lee – Subterranean Muse

by Steven O'Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of Irene May from Big…

16 years ago

Visions of Vollmer

by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation,…

16 years ago

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