The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were a woman.…
Philip Willey is one beat motherfucker. His website tells me he was born in England in 1941, but I don't…
One of our readers, Devin Fahey, recently posted a link to the Beatdom FB page. The link was to a…
In 1995 a scholar named Jorge Garcia-Robles wrote a long essay about William S. Burroughs’ time in Mexico, partly based…
Note: This essay inspired the 2013 book, Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult.' All of the uncertainties in…
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have helped shape our…
by Steven O'Sullivan It's like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a…
by David S. Wills The novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen: it has dozens of…
by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the 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…
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