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Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face: Favorite Saint of Gabrielle Ange L’Evesque Kerouac

Posted by GK Stritch | May 11, 2013 | Essays

Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) was four years old when her mother died. She entered the Carmelite...

Eating the Beat Menu

Posted by Nick Meador | Jul 3, 2012 | Beatdom Content, Essays

Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...

Death Within a Chrysalis

Posted by Nick Meador | Oct 24, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of...

The Battle for Kerouac’s Estate

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 11, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack Kerouac, 238th Chorus, Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969, of cirrhosis of the liver. By the...

Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard

Posted by David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays

By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s prolonged meditation on his older, saintly brother Gerard, who died at the age of nine (Jack was four at...