Beatdom #20: The Post-Beat Issue

Beatdom #20 is the Post-Beat issue, in which we bring you essays, interviews, and reviews focused on people like Bob Kaufman, Hunter S. Thompson, Diane di Prima, and Denise Levertov. There are, of course, a few mentions of the usual suspects – Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg – but we have decided to branch out and feature those writers whom we have previously overlooked. Contents“Hunter S. Thompson and the Beat Generation” by David S. Wills“Pregnancy always makes me want to fuck Sexual and Maternal Desire Entanglements in Diane di Prima” by Ambar Geerts Zapién Two Poems by Eliot Katz“The Encounter Weldon Kees and Denise Levertov, April–October 1955” by James Reidel“Review of The Last Quarter Century” by Robert Niemi“Interview with John Sampas” by David Daniel“William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Drugs, and When the Beats Split into the Hippies and the Punks” by Westley Heine“Chasing Hunter’s Literary Persona Through the A conversation with Hunter S. Thompson scholar, Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan” by Noel Dávila“The Beaten Burroughs, Ginsberg, Thompson… and the Battle of Chicago” by Leon Horton“A Shoe that Fits the A Review of Ginsberg’s South American Journals” by David S. Wills“The Deconstruction and Resurrection of Bob Kaufman” by Ryan Mathews“Fear and Loathing in Utero” by Leon Horton