Sixty years ago, on June 26th, 1960, an article with an odd title appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal. “A Louisvillian…
Update: There is a much more detailed exploration of The Rum Diary here. One mustn’t forget, in looking at the…
Review by Jamie Pinnock Over a decade following his psychedelic explosion onto the silver-screen as Raoul Duke in Fear and…
Folks, you've probably heard. We've pushed it on our Facebook page and our Twitter page, and it's all over the…
This past year has been kind to fans of the Beat Generation. First there was "Howl", the movie about Allen…
Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat…
Note: This essay was hugely expanded in 2020. The new version is found here. Hunter S. Thompson was no Beatnik.…
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