What’s Happening
* March 24, 2023: The Journal of Beat Studies #10 will be mailed to members soon!
* click here for a new interview with Kurt Hemmer, editor of the Encyclopedia of Beat Literature
* The 2022 Beat Studies Association Conference was a smashing success! See the Conference Page for highlights.
*April 13, 2022: The latest issue of The Lowell Review, edited by Richard P. Howe, Jr. and Paul Marion, has a section dedicated to “The Jack Kerouac Centennial.”
*March 12, 2022: In honor of Kerouac’s 100th birthday, check out Kurt Hemmer and Tom Knoff’s film, American Joyride
*March 4, 2022: Mary Paniccia Carden’s book, Women Writers of the Beat Era, is currently featured in the University of Virginia Press’s Women’s History Month Promotion, with a 30% discount.
*On March 10th, 2022, City Lights Bookstore will host a virtual event, “Still Outside: [email protected],” featuring Joyce Johnson, Ann Charters, Tim Hunt, David Amram, Regina Weinreich, Hassan Melehy, and Jean-Christophe Cloutier. Learn more and register here.
*On March 12th, 2022, Beatdom will released its special Kerouac centenary issue. Learn more here.
*January 19th, 2022: Read an excerpt from Kurt Hemmer’s forthcoming biography of Gregory Corso, A Revolutionary of the Spirit – A Gregory Corso Biography
*January 3rd, 2022: Kerouac Lives! Adds a U.S. film premiere