Beat Scene UK Winter 2024. Keith Kumasen Abbott’s article “The Dharma Bums – Kerouac’s Dust Jacket Copy” is included among many others. Read it and enjoy!

Excerpt: “Kerouac had a remarkably clear vision of the values found in his novel. By stressing the religious and positive aspects of the noelwith its lovefor nature and solitude, its serene and compassionate characters, and its large cast of everyday but adventerous people, he hoped to launch a pre-emptive strike, to use the current Cold War rhetoric for war, on its popular and critical reception.” Keith Kumasen Abbott