Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat…
by Steven O'Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of Irene May from Big…
by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation,…
Note: This essay was hugely expanded in 2020. The new version is found here. Hunter S. Thompson was no Beatnik.…
by Lee McRae ‘The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The…
by Adi Rajkovic There have been many pivotal experiences and events that have influenced my vision as an artist, but…
One famous and pivotal moment in Beat history was the killing David Kammerer by Lucian Carr. It was the end…
In Issue One, David S Wills looked at the songwriter Pete Doherty as a modern day Beatnik, with the promise…
History has not been kind to the women of the Beat Generation. During the Beat era, they were largely ignored…
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