Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat enthusiasts are still getting to read fresh material, as publishers trawl through his estate for...
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by Steven O’Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of...
Read Moreby 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...
Read MoreNote: This essay was hugely expanded in 2020. The new version is found here. Hunter S. Thompson was no Beatnik. For one thing, he was too late. By the time he was knocking out Gonzo journalism, Kerouac had died, the hippies had...
Read Moreby Lee McRae ‘The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole are holy! – Allen Ginsberg In the twenty-first century many do not find much need to cling so...
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