‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often been perceived as a…
In 1965 Allen Ginsberg flew to Cuba as part of a major poetry event hosted by the Casa de las…
It was summer 91, I think, when sharing a joint on a brick fire escape after a night of acid-tapped…
In the above video, Beatdom Books author John Tytell talks with Martin Torgoff, whose new book, Bop Apocalypse, explores jazz,…
Martin Torgoff’s Bop Apocalypse (not to be confused with the similarly titled The Bop Apocalypse, by John Lardas) attempts to…
Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on travellers. Poverty…
By Adrien Clerc The story of the making of Taking Tiger Mountain is one of the strangest a movie-goer…
One of our readers, Devin Fahey, recently posted a link to the Beatdom FB page. The link was to a…
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is now generally considered…
Is this a punk flick? Maybe a beat-punk film? Celluloid where punk and beat meet? Characters are beat, get beaten,…
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