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Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

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

Do the Beats Matter Today?

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the time, many critics announced the Beat Generation was irrelevant and had faded away. Others claimed the Beats were an insignificant...

Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard

Posted by David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays

By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s prolonged meditation on his older, saintly brother Gerard, who died at the age of nine (Jack was four at...

Alene Lee – Subterranean Muse

Posted by David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Steven O’Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of...

Visions of Vollmer

Posted by David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation, and we obviously talked a little about Joan Vollmer. However, we didn’t say enough to do her justice, for she was a fascinating...