Erik Mortenson’s Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey examines the way the Beat Generation is taught,…
An artistic and introverted spirit, Jack Kerouac never set out to become the leader of one of the greatest literary…
It always amazes me that after so many decades of scholarship, there is always a new way of looking at…
Paul Maher Jr has written an intimate, interesting look at the life of Jack Kerouac – not the whole life,…
Summer of Crud is a coming-of-age story that takes place on a road trip across America. It makes reference on…
Martin Torgoff’s Bop Apocalypse (not to be confused with the similarly titled The Bop Apocalypse, by John Lardas) attempts to…
Tales of Ordinary Sadness is a collection of fifteen short stories by Neil Randall, and its title is a reference…
In his new book, Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture, Dr. Erik Mortenson looks at the “paradox”…
Steven La Vey’s The Ugly Spirit begins with a quote from William S. Burroughs, who also coined the term that…
Larry Beckett is generally best-known as a songwriter, yet probably better known to Beatdom readers as the author of Beat…
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