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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...

Subterranean Lost Love

Posted by GK Stritch | Aug 8, 2013 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry

“They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual...

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...

Death Within a Chrysalis

Posted by Nick Meador | Oct 24, 2011 | Beatdom Content, Essays

At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of...

Alene Lee

Posted by David S. Wills | Apr 20, 2010 | Beatdom Content

One of the great mysteries of the Beat Generation is that of Alene Lee. She is, or rather, was, an enigma. Jack Kerouac wrote about her (as Mardou Fox in The Subterraneans and Irene May in Book of Dreams and Big Sur) but the...

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Mark Murphy/ Bop for Kerouac

Subterranean Lost Love

Tristessa: Heavengoing

Death Within a Chrysalis

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