mexico city blues Archives

Mark Murphy/ Bop for Kerouac

Posted by GK Stritch | May 1, 2014 | Reviews

“I want to be considered a jazz poet . . .” i Don’t miss Mark Murphy’s 1981 recording “Bop for...

Kolya Krasotkin Wept

Posted by GK Stritch | Mar 4, 2014 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry

“. . . when the children guitared At my footbed, Kolya Krosotkins of my railroad”i Kolya...

Jack Kerouac’s Poetry—Where is the Gold, if There’s Gold?

Posted by Chuck Taylor | Mar 6, 2013 | Beatdom Content, Essays

This paper is a short inquiry into the quality of Jack Kerouac’s poetry. Kerouac is an American writer who has maintained an enduring hold on succeeding generations of readers through his long prose works, such as On the Road...

Tristessa: Heavengoing

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 28, 2012 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Paul Arendt Jack Kerouac’s surroundings invariably affected his writing style. Narrator Leo Percepied’s voice in The Subterraneans reflected Kerouac’s emergent interest in psychology, and the author’s vision of the...

Last Thoughts on Ginsberg

Posted by David S. Wills | Aug 23, 2010 | Beatdom Content, Essays

by Michael Hendrick I have not reached the point where I will pay for a ring tone on my cell. Just the words “ring,” “tone” and “cell” in the same phrase pisses me off. Once somebody bought me a vanity license plate permit as a...