American Zen
Zen Buddhism is nearly impossible to write about. The use of words and logic to explain Zen are in...
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Eating the Beat Menu
Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...
Read MoreTristessa: Heavengoing
by Paul Arendt Jack Kerouac’s surroundings invariably affected his writing style. Narrator Leo Percepied’s voice in The Subterraneans reflected Kerouac’s emergent interest in psychology, and the author’s vision of the...
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A discussion of the importance of editing.
Read MoreThe Plurality of Beat Spirituality
by Lee McRae ‘The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole are holy! – Allen Ginsberg In the twenty-first century many do not find much need to cling so...
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