Beatin' Paths
0 FOLLOWERS
The Journey to the Great American Novel, now on Substack from Beatinpaths.com.
Essays, articles, stories, poetry, and more written across all 50 states and beyond, based on Aidan's adventures hitchhiking and living in a converted school bus.
Beatin' Paths
1w ago
(I coin a brand-new term that doesn’t exist anywhere on the internet! Inteversity: the synthesis of integrity and diversity. A short section from my upcoming thesis ..read more
Beatin' Paths
1M ago
From a rough draft of the introduction to my senior thesis at Harvard, 'E Pluribus Unum: The Dream of Democracy ..read more
Beatin' Paths
1M ago
(January 2024. Some updates, some glitches, and a poem written at my favorite gathering on earth: Skooliepalooza ..read more
Beatin' Paths
2M ago
(January 2025. My love letter to a beautiful city that's been more home to me than any other during my years on the road ..read more
Beatin' Paths
2M ago
(Explores how Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman created a ‘prophecy’ for the Great American Novel Project by laying out what “The American Scholar” and “The American Poet” must do ..read more
Beatin' Paths
2M ago
(Fall 2024. After 5 years and 3 months of life as a Harvard Dropout, I went back to school for my Senior Fall. Here are six poems from the last few months ..read more
Beatin' Paths
2M ago
(December 2024. My fifth ‘Treetise’ for the Harvard Independent, a column where I write about climbing the best trees around Harvard. It's about metasequoia and living ghosts ..read more