What's Your Road, Man?: Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road": Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The Awakener: A Memoir of Jack Kerouac and the Fifties by Helen Weaver Reviewed by Melissa from Berryville, Virginia.
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | yesterday
hen hallowed beat goddess Lenore Kandel died six weeks ago, the Chronicle published a nice memorial, with quotes from fellow travelers Peter Coyote, Gerard Nicosia, and others. I just became aware of another piece, by former SF Examiner columnist Stephanie Salter, now writing for the Terre Haute, Ind. Tribune-Star. In the essay Salter, a former [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
ASPEN -- The recent "Sexiest Man Alive" issue of People Magazine at a local market counter features a sweet photo of Johnny Depp wearing a Gonzo...
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Stonemason Spencer Burton is like a cross between Jack Kerouac and Don Draper. This struck me about ten minutes into our interview this morning at the Black Sheep Bakery on NW 19th, and I had to blurt it out. "You're a cross between Don Draper and Jack Kerouac," I said. "Who's Don Draper?" he asked. "Okay, let me re-phrase that as a question," I said. And so begins our...
Bike Hugger (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Colum McCann, who won the National Book Award last week for Let the Great World Spin, was inspired to write by a cross-country bike ride: So he took off on a bicycle for a year-and-a-half odyssey across the United States,...
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
I've made six icons of Jack Kerouac, just incase anyone's interested? One is with Neal Cassady and one is with William Burroughs. All are in black and white. Find them under the cut. Feel free to use, but please credit caitcupcake
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
At 6' 3" the tall, lumbering Michael Shannon doesn't look like a leading man with his rumpled character-actor looks. Sometimes, Shannon's so quiet and reserved...
Summer Teeth (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Nov 28, 2009 at 0 comments: Subscribe to: SummerTeeth "All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." Jack Kerouac Archive (76) (68) (56) (62) (40) (33) (27) (34) (33) (45) (103) (25) (1) Favorites
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Collectors Weekly recently caught up with famed book collector, and dealer , Ken Sanders about book collecting, specifically in regards to collecting books from, and about, the West. From the interview... Collectors Weekly: What are some of the most sought-after Western titles of the 20th century? Sanders: To stick with the Beats for a moment, a beautiful copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, in its...
Summer Teeth (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Nov 27, 2009 at 0 comments: Subscribe to: SummerTeeth "All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." Jack Kerouac Archive (72) (68) (56) (62) (40) (33) (27) (34) (33) (45) (103) (25) (1) Favorites
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
On this day of thanks, I'd like to say thank you for an American writer I still treasure. Oh, you can complain about his romanticism, about his self-destructive alcoholism, about his inability to get beyond his initial massive success with...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I've been listening to the audiobook of NAKED LUNCH and find myself blown away in many ways. Then I came across this, something I'd never heard: In 1944, Burroughs and legendary later Beat poet Jack Kerouac were living in New York. Amongst their entourage of friends was one David Kammerer, in a platonic relationship with his 'lover', mentally ill Lucian Carr. The gist is that Carr seems to have possibly...
After Long Busyness: A Poetry Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
What did we learn from Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg? By Aram Saroyan Poetry Media Service It’s been more than a decade since the death of Allen Ginsberg, but in the interim I’ve found that he’s stayed with me as an informing, tempering, guardian-like presence of a stature equaled only by [...]
Cafe Fashionista (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I’ll be honest; I’ve never been a fan of it. Small talk, that is. To some it’s a way to shoot the breeze; for me, it’s nothing more than moments wasted on nonsensical, inane musings brought about to mask the uncomfortable silences that so often pinpoint and plague our daily lives. But I’m not one to talk, I suppose; after all, I am a serial texter myself – exchanging...
DeRosaWorld (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there. Julien Green About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good...
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