You might well wonder what a beatnik is or who the Beat Generation were. Many people do... so what is…
Last week, I updated an old post on Chinese translations of Jack Kerouac's novels. The article proved surprisingly popular, in…
I heard recently that a friend of a friend, owner of a cassette recording of Allen Ginsberg reading from 1964,…
In this essay, I use a Marxist lens to examine Allen Ginsberg’s controversial and groundbreaking 1956 poem, Howl. Ginsberg, I…
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, While I walk on the…
Almost two years ago the world of Beat studies was rocked by the discovery of a seemingly lost piece of…
There is much about the Beat Generation that is shrouded in confusion. Oftentimes it stems from wishful thinking on the…
In his new book, Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture, Dr. Erik Mortenson looks at the “paradox”…
The Beats as we know them are a New York City phenomena and walk hand in hand with Abstract Expressionism…
Not many prose writers alive (Céline, Genet, a few others) would dare the freedom and intelligence to trust their own…
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