Beatdom #14 is the movie issue, and it's our biggest one ever. We have interviews with the filmmakers behind some of the best Beat movies, as well as reviews, essays, short stories, artwork, and poetry inspired by movies.

In this issue, David S. Wills takes a look at the first Beat flick, Pull My Daisy, while Nick Meador reviews the latest, Big Sur. Neil Reddy asks why Hollywood hasn't yet gotten Beat-inspired movies right, while Michelle Rudolf contends that they did with Howl (2010). Naturally, we took a look at the recent adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, with GK Stritch...

Beatdom #9 tackles the relationship between literature and drugs. It features essays on Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and traces the history of marijuana through India.

Beatdom #8 is the SEX issue of your favorite Beat literary journal. In exploring this more titillating of topics, we bring you a guide to Jack Kerouac's sex life, a look at the romantic side of Bob Dylan, an interview with Carolyn Cassady about her relationships with Kerouac and Neal Cassady, an exploration of the differences between male and female poets, a look at the life of one underappreciated Beat figure - Elise Cowen - and much, much more.

They call the Beat Generation "post-war" and apolitical but is that really true? William S. Burroughs lived through both World Wars, and was conscripted during the second. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Carl Solomon, Gary Snyder, and Bob Kaufman all served in the Merchant Marine, while Peter Orlovsky served in the Korean War. Ginsberg is credited with inventing the phrase "flower power," and Kerouac is often viewed as an advocate of America's invasion of Vietnam. War was a part of their lives and a part of their art, yet it is seldom given consideration.

In the WAR issue of...