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	Among the Secret Society of Ghosts by William Bevill (Goodreads Author), Kim Bell (Cover art) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kitt Finnegan and the Weirdness of Punk Rock: A detective story. Also, Grace wonders what life is like with and without the skin of a noodle. by William Bevill (Goodreads Author), Adele Vinaya Gavin 4.44 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Razor Graveyard it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of The Stranded Mariachi: Poems by William Bevill by William Bevill (Goodreads Author), Vincent Laughter, Sally Stargazer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existential Trips by William Bevill (Goodreads Author), Angela Kimball (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Enemies With Benefits by William Bevill (Goodreads Author) (Author), Blaqueheart (Author, Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I wrote a small book during a lock down period of COVID. My story was one I'd muddled around for a while and wound up being three Beat authors- Jack, Allen and William - getting on the road again after they've died and been re-animated as trained secret agents.

Existential Trips borrows heavily from my interests in literary and film from the Beat and Hippie world (down to the "Further" bus playing Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 09, 2020 15:11 • Tags: allen-ginsberg, beats, bevill, electric-kool-ad-acid-test, existential-trips, jack-kerouac, jim-morrison, neal-cassady, secret-society-of-ghosts, william-s-burroughs, zelda

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We Burned So Bright

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Arafat Mountain

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“Not every dystopia is a sad one, Grace.”
― William Bevill, Kitt Finnegan and the Weirdness of Punk Rock: A detective story. Also, Grace wonders what life is like with and without the skin of a noodle.

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“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
― Somerset Maugham

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“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”
― Jonathan Ames

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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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― Allen Ginsberg

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