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John Sampas

Posted by David S. Wills | Mar 11, 2017 | Beat News

John Sampas, executor of the Jack Kerouac Estate, has passed away peacefully at home in Greenwich,...

Posted by David S. Wills | Feb 13, 2017 | Essays

On this blog, we’ve previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the...

Posted by David S. Wills | Feb 9, 2017 | Beat News

In 2014, the world of Beat Studies was rocked by the discovery of the Joan Anderson letter....

Posted by Karen Dewar | Jan 23, 2017 | Essays

Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least...

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 30, 2016 | Reviews

There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...