jack kerouac

Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway Review No Country for Old Men

by Matt Gibson Hunter S. Thompson The theatre was dark and reeked with the stench of a hundred overfed accountants…

17 years ago

Hunter S. Thompson & the Beats

Note: This essay was hugely expanded in 2020. The new version is found here. Hunter S. Thompson was no Beatnik.…

17 years ago

An Evening for Jack Kerouac

Monday 17 September 2007 18.30 – 20.00 British Library Conference Centre ____________________________ I was outside the British Library Conference Centre…

17 years ago

The Plurality of Beat Spirituality

by Lee McRae ‘The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The…

17 years ago

On the Map

Stephanie Posavec is the artist behind the mapping of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In a recent attempt to explore…

17 years ago

Beat

by Adi Rajkovic There have been many pivotal experiences and events that have influenced my vision as an artist, but…

17 years ago

And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks

One famous and pivotal moment in Beat history was the killing David Kammerer by Lucian Carr. It was the end…

17 years ago

Modern Beat: Tom Waits

In Issue One, David S Wills looked at the songwriter Pete Doherty as a modern day Beatnik, with the promise…

17 years ago

Women of the Beat Generation

History has not been kind to the women of the Beat Generation. During the Beat era, they were largely ignored…

18 years ago

The Life of Gregory Corso

The life of Gregory Corso

18 years ago

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