Beatdom

Beatdom #10

by David S. Wills

Beatdom is a magazine for all fans of Beat Generation literature. This is the very first issue of Beatdom, containing interviews with Barry Gifford, Paul Krassner, Ken Babbs and Zane Kesey. We also have a talented group of writers and photographers, who have put together a magazine with features relating the Beat Generation to Buddhism, Bob Dylan, Hunter S Thompson and Walt Whitman; and guides to Beat books, websites and stories.

100 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2011

About the author

David S. Wills is the editor of Beatdom literary journal and the author of books on William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, and Haruki Murakami. He lives in rural Cambodia and is currently working on a book about the 6 Gallery reading of 1955.

Reviews

[Matthew W · Rating 3 out of 5]

Literary lycanthrope and Left-Hand path scholar Nikolas Schreck's critical but fair and somewhat flattering letter to deceased alpha-beat W.S. Burroughs is easily the most entertaining, erudite, and Burroughs-literate writing in this somewhat interesting (albeit uneven) issue of Beatdom. I also enjoyed Mrs. Schreck's two writings.

I respect that Beatdom is not merely a masturbatory tribute to the Beats, but a fairly objective (as objective as fans can be)and obsessive look at these often misunderstood writers. Essentially, most of the contributing writers to Beatdom see the Beats as "spiritual materialists" and dilettantes of religion as opposed to all-knowing gurus with deeply embedded knowledge of secrets truths from Orient.

[Newt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved Zeena's 2 short stories "Lost and Found - A Fairy Tale of Sethian Awakening" and "A Short History of Buddhism in Berlin"

[Ed Stimson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely the best issue thus far.