One of Jack Kerouac’s closest friends and literary associates in the 1940s was a fellow aspiring writer, Allan Temko. While…
The mystery of “America” has consumed and eluded generations of creators in equal measure; a mutable national identity haunts the…
During the pandemic lockdown, I began a deep dive into film because for the first time all live events were…
Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now legendary reading at a former…
I recently received a copy of Gregory Stephenson’s new book, And The Rivers Thereof: Reflections on Riverine Imagery in the…
There are various superficial connections between Elvis Presley and the writers of the Beat Generation. Although he was much younger…
Jack Kerouac went by more than a few names, not just in his novels, where he used numerous aliases including…
Earlier this year, I wrote about references to the Beats in the work of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. It was…
In the last Friday Round-up at the Allen Ginsberg Estate, I was alerted to a very interesting video by Dave…
The following interview was published in Beatdom #22, which can be purchased on Amazon. Brian Hassett is the author of…
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