Beatdom

Beatdom is a literary journal inspired by the Beat Generation. We publish essays about the Beats, as well as short fiction and poetry inspired by their work. If that sounds a little limiting to you, fear not. We take "Beat" to mean a wide range of things.

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A Sixty-Year History of The Rum Diary

Sixty years ago today, Hunter S. Thompson published an article about his friend that shines a little light on his novel, The Rum Diary.

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These are the three most recent issues of Beatdom. The 20th issue was published earlier this month and can be purchased (or downloaded for free) here: https://www.beatdom.com/beatdom-20-is-on-sale/

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To date, we have published 20 issues of Beatdom. You can find most of them on Amazon, at www.books.beatdom.com, or ask in your local bookshop. 

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Beatdom #20 is available as a printed or digital journal. It contains essays, interviews, and reviews about Beat and Post-Beat figures like Bob Kaufman, Diane di Prima, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.

Grab your copy here: https://www.beatdom.com/beatdom-20-is-on-sale/

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Get your copy of Beatdom here.

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Beatdom #20 is now on sale. It features Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Diane di Prima, and Timothy Leary. 

Check it out.

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Coming soon.

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Coming soon: https://www.beatdom.com/beatdom-20/ 

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Michael McClure, Present at Beat Poetry’s Birth, Dies at 87

He took part in the storied San Francisco reading where Allen Ginsberg unveiled a version of “Howl.” He went on to have his own moments of fame and notoriety.

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Decadence and Depravity in Louisville, Kentucky - Quillette

Fifty years ago today, Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman drunkenly negotiated the pitfalls of Louisville’s Churchill Downs, home of the world-famous Kentucky Derby. At the time, Thompson was a moderately successful writer who had published an acclaimed book a few years earlier about his time among the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang. Steadman was a talented young artist from Wales who had traveled to the United States in search of work. For Steadman and Thompson, it would be their first meeting, but it was hardly Thompson’s first derby. He had grown up in Louisville’s Cherokee Park area and was familiar with the whisky gentry who would be in attendance. As a teenager, Thompson’s wit, charm, intellect, and surly insubordination had made him popular among the city’s wealthy young men and women. However, he had never felt fully accepted and, when he was arrested along with a couple of classmates for holding up a car just shy of his graduation, his rich friends abandoned him to his fate—two months in prison. After 10 years of surviving …

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Recently uncovered poems by an eleven-year-old Allen Ginsberg! Read more here. 

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Not bad. 

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A large collection of Beatdom books and journals. 

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Thanks, Google.

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Some recent publications from Beatdom Books - www.beatdom.com. 

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So you either go out and cut your hair and take some job and work your way up and eat shit all your life and make a living, or you can try to remain tender and gentle and aware of the wonderful complexity of everything.

Allen Ginsberg