R. R. Reno The road dominates the American imagination, from the Oregon Trail to Route 66. That strange, in-between time…
by Steven O'Sullivan "A true document of human desperation." -Playwright Tennessee Williams on Mohamed Choukri's autobiographical novel about life in…
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have helped shape our…
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in…
by Steven O'Sullivan It's like a compass. A compass operates on magnetics. People always seem to be in such a…
“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack…
by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the…
Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat…
by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation,…
The 1960s are associated with what Frank calls ‘the big change, the birthplace of our own culture, the homeland of…
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