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Beatdom
''Beatdom'' is a Scottish Literary magazine, literary journal. It was founded in 2007 and is published annually in May. The journal features essays, reviews, and interviews concerning the Beat Generation, as well as short fiction and poetry. Wills refers to ''Beatdom'' as a “semi-academic” publication because it tackles subjects of academic interest in an accessible fashion. History ''Beatdom'' was founded in May 2007 in Dundee, Scotland by David S. Wills. Wills has stated that the journal was originally meant to focus on contemporary issues taking the Beat Generation as inspiration but that later it morphed into more of a conventional literary journal. ''Beatdom'' was originally a glossy, A4-sized magazine but with the ninth issue it switched to a 6x9 black-and-white format. Its focus also became slightly more academic. Since 2015, the journal has drastically increased in size, with recent issues almost 300 pages long. During the COVID-19 pandemic, covid pandemic, digital ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by members of the Silent Generation in the 1950s, better known as Beatniks. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. Allen Ginsberg's '' Howl'' (1956), William S. Burroughs' ''Naked Lunch'' (1959), and Jack Kerouac's ''On the Road'' (1957) are among the best-known examples of Beat literature.Charters (1992) ''The Portable Beat Reader''. Both ''Howl'' and ''Naked Lunch'' were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Morgan (archivist)
Bill Morgan is an American writer, editor and painter, best known for his work as an archivist and bibliographer for public figures such as Allen Ginsberg Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Abbie Hoffman, and Timothy Leary. Biography Morgan was Ginsberg's personal archivist and bibliographer from the early 1980s until the author's death from cancer in 1997. Over their 20-year professional relationship, Morgan became quite close to Ginsberg, and has written extensively on the Beat Generation and its key figures. Morgan's interest in the Beats goes back to the early 1970s, when he was attending the University of Pittsburgh. For his master's degree thesis, he compiled a bibliography of the works of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and owner of City Lights Books, the famous San Francisco bookstore. After finishing his thesis, Morgan was encouraged by the editors at the University of Pittsburgh Press to pursue this project with a view toward eventual publication. He continued his research, working i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Hinkle
Al Hinkle (April 9, 1926 – December 26, 2018) was a childhood friend of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady who was the inspiration for the character of Ed Dunkel in Jack Kerouac’s ''On the Road''. In December 1948 Hinkle contributed $100 to the down payment on the 1949 Hudson automobile that Cassady drove across the United States, the journey memorialized in Kerouac’s novel. He was also the real life inspiration for characters in two other Kerouac books: Slim Buckle in '' Visions of Cody'' and Ed Buckle in ''Book of Dreams''. Hinkle is credited with convincing Cassady to move from Denver to the San Francisco Bay Area to work on the Southern Pacific railroad. Kerouac followed, and briefly worked as a brakeman. Poet Allen Ginsberg, another Hinkle friend, also came out from New York. The independent thinkers formed the nucleus of what became known as the Beat Generation, a precursor of the San Francisco-centered counterculture movement in the 1960s. Hinkle never sought fame or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alene Lee
Alene Lee (1931–1991) was an African-American member of the Beat generation in New York City whose romantic relationship with Jack Kerouac was the central theme in his novel ''The Subterraneans''. Kerouac used the pseudonym Mardou Fox for Lee. Lee was also the model for the character of Irene May in ''Book of Dreams'' and ''Big Sur.'' Lee shunned publicity, but her daughter has written about her life. Born Arlene Garris, in Washington D.C., she grew up in Staten Island, New York and met Jack Kerouac in 1953, when she was typing manuscripts for Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of th .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Alene 1931 births 1991 deaths Beat Generation writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Johnson (author)
Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, whose writing has been closely associated with the Beat Generation. She was also a child actress and appeared in the Broadway production of '' I Remember Mama'', which she went on to write about in her 2004 memoir ''Missing Men''. Personal life She was born Joyce Glassman in 1935 to a Jewish family in New York City and raised in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a few blocks from the apartment of Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived from 1944 to 1946. Johnson was brought up in an unconventional manner for the time. One example is her mother who at 19 was continually moving from one place to another in her family's efforts to help her gain better marital prospects. As she said in the County College of Morris's Legacy Project Forum on Women of the Beat Generation being exposed to many various situations growing up, she believes that that is why she l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tytell
John Tytell (born 1939) is an American writer and academic. He is professor emeritus of modern American literature at Queens College, City University of New York."John Tytell" ''American Book Review'', accessed 16 September 2020. Tytell's works on literary figures such as , , , , and |
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Best known for his poem " Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized copies of "Howl" in 1956, and a subsequent obscenity trial in 1957 attracted widespread publicity due to the poem's language and descriptions of heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made male homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scroobius Pip
David Peter Meads (born 3 August 1981), known professionally as Scroobius Pip, is an English actor and podcaster as well as a former spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. He first gained prominence as one half of hip hop duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip sparked by their debut single " Thou Shalt Always Kill". He manages his own record label, Speech Development Records. He hosted the award-winning weekly radio show ''The Beatdown'' on XFM in the late 2000s and currently hosts the '' Distraction Pieces Podcast''. In August 2016, he released a book entitled ''Distraction Pieces''. He appears as French Bill, an assistant to Atticus, in the eight-part historical fiction series ''Taboo'' (2017) on BBC One and FX. Career Music Early career As a teenager, Scroobius Pip was inspired by punk music to buy a guitar and form various bands with his friends. His musical tastes quickly grew to encompass genres including hip hop and jazz and he became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Krassner
Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932 – July 21, 2019) was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine ''The Realist'', first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s as a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and a founding member of the Yippies, a term he is credited with coining. Early life Krassner was a child violin prodigy and performed at Carnegie Hall in 1939 at age six. His parents practiced Judaism, but Krassner chose to be firmly secular, considering religion "organized superstition". He majored in journalism at Baruch College (then a branch of the City College of New York) and began performing as a comedian under the name Paul Maul. He recalled: While in college, I started working for an anti-censorship paper, ''The Independent''. After I left college I started working there full time. So, I never had a normal job where I had to be interviewed and wear a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Cassady
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and correspondence. Letters, poems, and an unfinished autobiographical novel have been published since his death. He was prominently featured as himself in the "scroll" (first draft) version of Jack Kerouac's novel ''On the Road'', and served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of that book. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray. Cassady also appeared in Allen Ginsberg's poems, and in several other works of literature by other writers. Biography Early years Cassady was born to Maude Jean (Scheuer) and Neal Marshall Cassady in Salt Lake City, Utah. His mother died w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Nicosia
Gerald Nicosia (born November 18, 1949, in Berwyn, Illinois) is an American author, poet, journalist, interviewer, and literary critic. He is based in Knoxville, Tennessee. About Nicosia received a B.A. and an M.A. in English and American Literature, with Highest Distinction in English, from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1971 and 1973 respectively. Nicosia has written book reviews for the past 25 years for many major American newspapers, including ''The Washington Post'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', ''The Kansas City Star'', the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', the ''Oakland Tribune'', and the ''Los Angeles Times''. Nicosia is best known as a biographer of Jack Kerouac. His highly regarded ''Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac'' (1983) was reissued in March 2022 with new material by Noodlebrain Press. He had also been an advocate and supporter of the late Jan Kerouac, Jack's estranged daughter. In January 2009, Nicosia edited and published '' Jan Kerouac: A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Babbs
Ken Babbs (born January 14, 1936) is a Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s. He along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ken Kesey, wrote the book '' Last Go Round''. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus '' Furthur''. Early life Ken Babbs was born January 14, 1936, and raised in Mentor, Ohio. He attended the Case Institute of Technology where he briefly studied engineering for two years on a basketball scholarship, before transferring to Miami University, from which he graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a degree in English literature in 1958. He then attended the Stanford University graduate creative writing program on a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship from 1958–59; having entered the NROTC program to fund his undergraduate studies, Babbs was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps following the end of his fellowship. He trained as a helicopter pilot and served i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
