visions of cody Archives

Review: The Best Minds of My Generation

Posted by David S. Wills | Dec 30, 2016 | Reviews

There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...

Reconsidering Jack Kerouac a Half-Century Later

Posted by Richard Kostelanetz | Oct 14, 2015 | Beatdom Content, Essays

Not many prose writers alive (Céline, Genet, a few others) would dare the freedom and intelligence to trust their own minds, remember they made that jump, not censor it but write it down and discover its beauty. That’s what I...

Visions of Winter… Russia… Cody

Posted by GK Stritch | Dec 6, 2013 | Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry

Hot chocolate . . . delicious Blustery deep freeze winds Cut through cruel canyons of Manhattan...

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...

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...