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Gregory Corso: Poet of the Streets

Posted by David S. Wills | Apr 15, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by James Lough Illustration by Isaac Bonan If the first string of the Beat writers featured Jack...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute

Posted by David S. Wills | Sep 28, 2010 | Beat News

On October 2nd, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his Beat bookstore and publisher, City Lights, will receive Litquake’s 2010 Barbary Award at Herbst Theater. The celebration will be attended by Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Lenny...

The Beat Generation and Travel

Posted by David S. Wills | Feb 17, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have...

Naked Lunch at Fifty

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

“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . ....

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...