Date: 6th Jul 2013 – 7th Jul 2013
Location: New York Stadium, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK
Jack Kerouac is the iconic writer of the definitive American novel, On the Road, and is known as the father of the Beat Generation. …{read more}
The UK Jack Kerouac Convention
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A William S. Burroughs top ten from Jed B. with his comments
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comment: So you have read Naked Lunch and Junkie and maybe even paged though the Nova Trilogy of Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express, you think you know William Burroughs. Well that is only the tip of …{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}
Allison M.’s Top Ten Favorite Books
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1. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
3. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
4. Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
5. Demian by Hermann Hesse
6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger …{read more}
Three pieces for beat poets
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For Eileen Myles (New Generation Beat)
He licked his lips but not at me. I watched his eyes walk by, glazedly, hanging their thumbs on their belt loops oh so casual. We had only just arrived and he …{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}
Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske
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“What’s your road, man?—holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
For the last several years, on his website www.RetracingJackKerouac.com, Joerg Haeske has documented his …{read more}
The Best 25 Places to Buy Cllectible & 1st Edition Books
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So, what’s the best way to find books online? There are thousands of large bookselling sites, and individual booksellers, and Google searches don’t always work well for turning up the results you want.
Book marketplaces make finding books easier. Member …{read more}
Review – Free Beer: Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson
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Free Beer: Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac, and other strong drinks” is a collection of twelve stories by Cliff Anderson. Also included is Kerouac scholar Rod Anstee’s 1990 interview with Anderson, titled “Dare to be Kind.”
In the tale …{read more}
Review – Alleycats and Beatsters: The Hip, the Gone, and the Way Gone
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Alleycats and Beatsters, a collection of essays by British writer Kenton Crowther, explores what it means to be Beat, the nature of hipness, and the poets, writers and hipsters who orbited the Beats, either closely or from a distance. …{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}
Carl Wiliams of Maggs Bros. Ltd. on the Beats, counterculture books & more!
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This just in from Carl Williams of Maggs Bros. Ltd, the outstanding London bookseller:
Here’s a catalogue and informal show that we have just put together from Scratch, all items are for sale and to be taken away. We will …{read more}
Earwitness Testimony: Sound and Sense, Word and Void in Jack Kerouac’s Old Angel Midnight
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“the ineluctable modality of the audible”
– James Joyce Ulysses
So much of Jack Kerouac’s writing seems impelled by an impatience with all verbal restraints and by an urgent purpose that strains to push and pivot, dodge and drive – …{read more}
Who was Neal Cassady?
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Neal Cassady: a brief biographical sketch
Born on February 8, 1926, Neal Cassady grew up in Denver, Colorado. He was the son of a barber who moved the family from cheap hotel to cheap hotel. As a young man, Neal …{read more}
Get “On the Road” movie gear!
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The long-anticipated film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”, directed by Walter Salles and produced by Francis Ford Coppola will soon be released in the United States. Here are some books, CDs and accessories associated with “On the Road.” …{read more}
29 Russell St.
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It’s been about ten years now since I saw Beat legends Neal and Carolyn Cassady’s house. It was such a thrill for me; I can remember it perfectly. My old friends Kirstin and Colin, from Alaska had just moved down …{read more}
We Are Jack Kerouac
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Though not in the sense
we were born in Lowell Mass
or beat it out of there to
get famous, though we
gassed up and burned rubber
in Lowell Mass and in
other states and cities
we hitched rides and …{read more}
The Official Kerouac “On the Road” Movie Trailer is Here!
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“On the Road,” the movie based on Jack Kerouac’s novel of the same name, will be released in the United States on December 21, 2012. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope, it’s directed by Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) and …{read more}
Long-Sleeve White Collared Shirt
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Self Portrait
To Ginsberg
Don’t read into this, Allen. I just want to talk.
I’m listening to Vietnam protest songs,
meditating through my anxiety and my need for approval
from executives and peers.
I’m conflicted.
No one drinks beer on …{read more}
“The Old Maestro”: an interview with Kerouac friend Henri Cru by Dave Moore
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Henri Cru was one of the friends that Jack Kerouac met at Horace Mann School, New York, in 1939. Their friendship sustained for many years, and Cru featured as a character in several of Kerouac’s books. He was the model …{read more}
For collectors: where and how to buy Beat Generation books (and others)
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We’ve gathered together booksellers, publishers, and other services for book book collectors of all stripes. Please get in touch if you’d like to suggest a resource for this list.
Booksellers – Beat, small press & poetry
Beat nooksellers …{read more}
The Beat
La Picaudiere – and Hundertwasser’s Honey
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Asked in an interview what he would remember most about his life as an artist, Man Ray replied “the women.” I was a bee whisperer, like Edmund Hillary who climbed Mount Everest and who was a beekeeper in New Zealand, …{read more}
“My really best friend…” an interview with Seymour Wyse by Dave Moore
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Seymour Michael Wyse was one of Jack Kerouac’s closest friends. An Englishman, educated at Charterhouse School, Wyse met Kerouac when they both attended Horace Mann School, New York, in 1939. They remained in close contact until Wyse returned to England …{read more}
Jack Kerouac’s Last Night in Northport
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Beat Scene Press will soon be publishing JACK KEROUAC’S LAST NIGHT IN NORTHPORT by Pat Fenton.
An edition of 125 numbered copies. No 36 in the Beat Scene series. It is £7.95.
Also check out the recent issue of Beat …{read more}
New Beat Scene Press chapbook
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There is a new chapbook from The Beat Scene Press – JACK KEROUAC’S VISIONS OF CODY: THE LONG ROAD by Kevin Ring. An edition of 100 numbered copies. For more details go to www.beatscene.net. …{read more}
Beat Scene #66 & William Burroughs…
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A new issue of the long-running Beat Generation devoted magazine BEAT SCENE has recently been issued. Number 66 features Gregory Corso on the front cover, and includes 64 full sized pages of interviews, articles, photos, reviews etc.
Plus, No 33 …{read more}
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
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The Sea is My Brother was Jack Kerouac’s first attempt at a novel. Technically it fits the criteria of a Novella, the original manuscript weighing in at 158 pages. Published for the first time in its entirety by Penguin Classics …{read more}
Heeding the Call of the Open Road
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Beat culture and hippie culture were both long gone as a central movement by the time I was growing up, but hop on the bandwagon I did. As a teenager, there was nothing I wanted more than to get the …{read more}
Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee
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Lawrence FerlinghettiMarch 11, 1987
Taken in his office above City Lights Bookstore (shaped like an arrowhead bisecting Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley), Ferlinghetti spends more time in his painting studio at this point in his life. A quiet, …{read more}
Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle
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It was Horst who started it. Horst Spandler had been translating the 1971 Kerouac anthology Scattered Poems into German. Along the way he’d been asking others their advice on the meaning of parts of Jack’s poems. One such query I …{read more}
The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
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When someone comes up with a fresh and startling way of looking at our world, you can bet that it is drawn from a combination of sources, fields, and disciplines. Gary Snyder has done just this with The Practice of …{read more}
For Beat’s Sake: An Interview with Carolyn Cassady
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We all live inside history, and Carolyn Cassady has seen her share. Ms. Cassady was gracious and open when she sat for an interview at her home in Monte Sereno, not far from Los Gatos.
Carolyn Cassady, best known for …{read more}
The Rebirth of the Author in
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
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“Time stops. He’s filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling …{read more}