Scientology is largely overlooked in major texts about the life and work of William S. Burroughs,...

The 6 Gallery reading of October 7, 1955, changed the world. On that night, a group of mostly unk...

The Bunker Diary is Stewart Meyer's account of life in the orbit of William S. Burroughs. He reco...

This is the 25th issue of Beatdom literary journal and it is released on the 70th anniversary of ...

In the 1950s, the authors of the Beat Generation helped introduce American readers to Eastern phi...

Allen Ginsberg was not just a poet; he was one of the most recognizable and outspoken public figu...

For forty years, George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman beat his oil barrel drums and improvised songs to the...

High White Notes is a critical examination of the writing of Hunter S. Thompson. It is arranged b...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and Beat publisher, could hardly seem more different from Thomas Mert...

The Burroughs-Warhol Connection revolves around four meetings between William S. Burroughs and An...

Allen Ginsberg was one of the most politically engaged writers of his era, with a widespread soci...

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Beat Transnationalism

In the years following World War II, the Beat Generation began a literary revolution that changed...