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Eating the Beat Menu

Posted by Nick Meador | Jul 3, 2012 | Beatdom Content, Essays

Words by Nick Meador Illustration by Kaliptus (from issue 10, available at Amazon) Jack Kerouac’s...

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...

Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard

Posted by David S. Wills | Jul 10, 2009 | Beatdom Content, Essays

By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s prolonged meditation on his older, saintly brother Gerard, who died at the age of nine (Jack was four at...

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