note: Here there be spoilers
By now it is cliche to label a Terrence Malick film a “visual poem,” but in the case of To The Wonder, that is what it is. Malick’s cinematic eye defers to poetry more …{read more}
Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.
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In 2005, Thunder’s Mouth Press published my collection of interviews with Jack Kerouac. It was titled Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac. Not long afterwards, the famed publishing house was bought out by DaCapo Press and the …{read more}
Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”
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Here is an addendum to a previous article written for Empty Mirror. Herewith I will describe the contents of the “lost” letter in both the U.K. and U.S. trade editions of The Sea is My Brother so that you may …{read more}
from a novel-in-progress . . . .
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We backtracked from the northern path after losin’ our way, me n’ my brother, to Tempest County. We’d been on n’ indian trail for three days, movin’ by night, restin’ in orchards n’ groves n’ swamps and two times …{read more}
A “Lost” Letter Found . . . and “lost” again.
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In the U.K. edition of Jack Kerouac’s 1945 novel, The Sea Is My Brother (Penguin 2011), there is an addendum of material meant to represent Jack Kerouac’s formative writing experience during the early to mid-1940s. The thrust of this formative …{read more}
The Great Consciousness of Life
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Reaching in, pulling out. The great divide is conquered; and there lies an ever-evolving mission to extract meaning from chaos. This, then, is where it resides, the theater of the soul and the heart.
In rewriting my biography of Jack …{read more}
Terrence Malick, Badlands and Caril Fugate: An Interview
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Photos courtesy of Jeff McArthur (All Rights Reserved)
Jeff McArthur is the author of Pro Bono: The 18-Year Defense of Caril Fugate. Mr. McArthur’s grandfather, John C. McArthur, defended Caril Fugate in her trial for her part in the Starkweather …{read more}
Kerouac & An American Marriage
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(an excerpt from a work-in-progress)
In January 1945, Jack Kerouac set out to write his Great American Novel. His newly-drafted notes embraced the activities of the last four years and scaffolded the events up to, during and …{read more}
Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?
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With the glut of books that thankfully made our way in the past 20 years or so, we now have (probably) just as many posthumous titles as those Kerouac published in his lifetime. These have added exponentially to our understanding …{read more}