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   From Beatdom Magazine:   
      
   It has been a big year for Beatdom. We published two exciting new books and   
   the 25th issue of our journal. In addition to those print publications,   
   we’ve made an effort to publish long-form investigative essays that delve   
   into hidden or misunderstood    
   parts of Beat history (and occasionally other parts of the counterculture).   
      
   In looking back, there are a few essays that stand out for the discoveries   
   made during their research. First of all is Thomas Antonic’s incredible   
   find: William S. Burroughs had not two but three wives! He married a Mexican   
   woman in 1949 and then kept    
   it secret for the rest of his life. Even since his death in 1997, this had   
   remained unknown with no books about him mentioning it until Antonic’s essay   
   this past summer.   
      
   Hunter S. Thompson was certainly not a Beat writer but for the 20th   
   anniversary of his death we finally revealed where the word “gonzo” came   
   from. It was well known that journalist Bill Cardoso first used it to describe   
   Thompson’s style of    
   journalism, but we discovered that Cardoso found it in an essay on Baba Ram   
   Dass.   
      
   Many have speculated on where William S. Burroughs first learned about yage   
   (ayahuasca) but it was only a few months ago that anyone knew for sure. We   
   uncovered the exact article in which he first learned about it.   
      
   Who came up with the phrase “Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car   
   in the night?” It appears in a Kerouac novel and—slightly altered—in a   
   Ginsberg poem. But actually the two men had borrowed it from an old Russian   
   novel.   
      
   In books about Allen Ginsberg, there is often a brief mention of a woman   
   called Karena Shields… but who was she? We wrote a long biographical piece   
   about this incredible woman, who was for a while something of a celebrity   
   explorer, and who was for a    
   time an important part of the young poet's life.   
      
   You can find links to each of these essays in the comments below.   
      
   Happy New Year to all of our followers, readers, friends, and everyone in the   
   Beat community.   
      
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   Here are the links to the essays mentioned above:   
      
   1. William Burroughs’ third wife: https://beatdom.substack.com   
   p/william-s-burroughs-third-wife   
      
   2. The origins of “gonzo”: https://beatdom.substack.com/p/un   
   overing-the-origins-of-gonzo-on   
      
   3. Where Burroughs learned about yage: https://beatdom.substack.   
   om/p/amazing-stories-and-weird-tales-origins   
      
   4. Where Kerouac found “Whither goest thou…” https://beatd   
   m.substack.com/p/whither-goest-thou-america   
      
   5. Karena Shields’ biography: https://beatdom.substack.com/p/d   
   eaming-howling-naming   
      
   There are many more essays in our archives: https://beatdom.subs   
   ack.com/archive   
      
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