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At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico

Posted by David S. Wills | Apr 27, 2015 | Reviews

In 2013 I was asked to review a book called The Stray Bullet, about William S. Burroughs’ years in...

On Bitch Magazine’s Response to Joan’s Death

Posted by David S. Wills | Mar 31, 2014 | Discussions

One of our readers, Devin Fahey, recently posted a link to the Beatdom FB page. The link was to a...

The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 20, 2014 | Reviews

In 1995 a scholar named Jorge Garcia-Robles wrote a long essay about William S. Burroughs’ time in...

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...

Visions of Vollmer

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

by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation, and we obviously talked a little about Joan Vollmer. However, we didn’t say enough to do her justice, for she was a fascinating...