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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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}
How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life
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When I was twenty-two, I was lucky enough to be the only South African on an American college campus, studying Creative Writing and trying to figure out what to do with my life (along with every other college student, it …{read more}
Paintings: Kristen Stewart as Marylou Moriarty in On the Road
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T.E. Priemon – Encaustic Artist
Artist’s Statment
I am an artist who paints using a 2000-year-old painting medium used in the way the Fayum Egyptian artist used their encaustic paints for portraits, which have survived in much the same way …{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}
In honor of Jack’s birthday: 4 Kerouac Videos
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In honor of Jack Kerouac’s birthday (March 12), here are some videos to enjoy.
1. Kerouac & friends in New York
“Silent footage of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and others in New York, Summer 1959. The location is …{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}
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}
Jack Kerouac Woodcut T-Shirts Now Available!
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Loren Kantor is now offering T-Shirts based on his original Jack Kerouac woodcut.
The T-Shirts are 100% cotton, white shirts with featuring a black print; all shirts are XL in size.
To purchase, please contact Loren via his website. The …{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}
1958 Kerouac Letter for Auction!
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RR Auction has a typed, signed letter from Jack Kerouac for auction at RR Auction. The letter was written to Irving Rosenthal at the Chicago Review, and postmarked January 29, 1958.
It reads, in part:
“I do have something for …{read more}
Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer Released!
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The film, Big Sur, based upon Jack Kerouac’s novel of the same name, is due to be released this year. The trailer has just been released.
Directed by Michael Polish, who also wrote the screenplay, it stars Jean-Marc Barr as …{read more}
A Gallery of Woodcut Prints by Loren Kantor
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Loren Kantor on the Carving Process
I’ve always been an old-school guy. I prefer tattered books to e-readers, vinyl records to MP3′s and classic black & white movies to modern 3-D dreck.
I fell in love with woodcuts in the …{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}
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}
“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}
“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}
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}
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}
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}
Baby Driver, by Jan Kerouac
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While I was being gifted a tiny grocery store carrot cake for my fifteenth birthday in a park in Connecticut, still on the road myself, Jan Kerouac passed away. It was June 5, 1996. I had no idea who Jan …{read more}
Jack Kerouac’s Books
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This is a listing of Jack Kerouac’s books, arranged by their date of publication. We’ve also noted the date(s) when the book was written. If the book covers a particular period of time, we’ve noted the approximate dates. …{read more}
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Blowing: Poetry Meets Music
in the Writing of the Beat Generation
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PROCEDURE: Time being of the essence in the purity of speech, sketching language is undisturbed flow from the mind of personal secret idea-words, blowing (as per jazz musician) on subject of image.
–Jack Kerouac (1953), quoted from The Essentials of …{read more}
Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds:
The Cultural and Literary Legacy
of the Beat Generation
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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 (1957), quoted from On the Road
“Despite the skepticism I brought here, I am suddenly experiencing their feeling. …{read more}
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Ali Valdivia: amazing!...