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Death of Neal’s son revealed
By Simon Warner
ONE OF THE standard bearers of the next generation of Beat energy and activity, the only son of Neal and Carolyn Cassady, has died aged 75.
John Allen Cassady, whose first names recognised the part that Jack Kerouac and Al...
Book review #79: Kindred Spirits
Kindred Spirits: Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and Zen by Edward C. Sellner (Monkfish, 2025)
By Jonah Raskin, Chief Book Reviewer
JACK KEROUAC counted half-a-dozen or so ‘kindred spirits’. They included, not necessarily in order of importan...
Joe Strummer: Punk hero, Beat heart
FIFTY YEARS ago this autumn, I accidentally ran in to Joe Strummer in my empty university bar. Except, I thought he was Johnny Rotten.
Today, I was asked, somewhat surprisingly, to confirm details of the encounter for a wonderful web proje...
Book review #78: The Dream is Over
The Dream is Over: London in the 60s, Heroin and John & Yoko by Dan Richter (Quartet, 2012)
By Simon Warner
‘I don't believe in Beatles / I just believe in me, Yoko, and me / And that's reality / The dream is over’ John Lennon, ‘God’ (197...
Book review #77: Prayers with a Side of Cash
Prayers with a Side of Cash: Poems While Driving Across America by Kathleen Florence (Moontide Press, 2025)
by Marc Zegans
PRAYERS WITH a Side of Cash, Kathleen Florence’s first full length collection of poems, presented in a thoughtfully...
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Founding Editor, Rock and the Beat Generation. Author of Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture and co-editor of Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack.
I was a teenage Beatnik in the 1950s. More than half a century later I am still a beatnik in spirit.
Countercultural editor, writer, and interviewer. Editor of the acclaimed essay/memoir collection, 'Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet' (Roadside Press, 2024). Writer for Beatdom, Rock and the Beat Generation, International Times.
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