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Review – The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Denise Enck

The Beats: A Short Introduction by David Sterritt

The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt / Oxford University Press / 978-0-19-979677-9 / 126 pages David Sterritt's work might be familiar to Beat or film aficionados through his … [Read more...]

Charged Vision: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

Corey Wade

Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg

The photographs of Allen Ginsberg recently were on display at the Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco. Walking through the museum is like going on a jaunt through Beat History. A spritely Jack … [Read more...]

John J. Dorfner on Jack Kerouac’s Induction into the Rocky Mount Hall of Fame

John J. Dorfner and Denise Enck

Jack Kerouac Rocky Mount Hall of Fame Potrtrait - inducted by John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner is the author of two books on Jack Kerouac, Kerouac: Visions of Lowell and Kerouac: Visions of Rocky Mount. In them, he delves into Kerouac's life in Lowell, Massachusetts, and in … [Read more...]

The Jack Kerouac Upper Peninsula Diary by t. kilgore splake, reviewed

Denise Enck

jack kerouac upper peninsula diary

The Jack Kerouac Upper Peninsula Diary / t. kilgore splake / Angst Publications / PO Box 508, Calumet, MI 49913-0508 / 1998 The author provided Empty Mirror with a review copy. “Happiness … [Read more...]

3 Poems by Ryan Ritchie

Ryan Ritchie

JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

FOR JACK nothing any wordsmith can do with a keyboard matches the beauty that leaps from the subconscious mind of the jazz musician. we sit and think, type, sit and think some more, never … [Read more...]

Book Review – Son of Kerouac, Woodstock and God: A Memoir by James Crockett

Denise Enck

Son of Kerouac, Woodstock and God

Son of Kerouac, Woodstock and God / James Crockett / 978-148125581 / 261 pages Empty Mirror received a review copy of this book. As a young man about to embark upon a summer-long hitchhiking … [Read more...]

Bruce Hodder’s Ten Favourite Books

Bruce Hodder

In Watermelon Sugar

1. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan 2. Big Sur – Jack Kerouac 3. Desert Solitaire – Edward Abbey 4. Ulysses – James Joyce 5. The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Matsuo Basho 6. … [Read more...]

Becoming Jill Kerouac

Amelia Hruby

map and coffee / via unsplash

It all started with the word. Not THAT word. But a word — or a string of words, rather — that struck me: There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take … [Read more...]

Michael McClure will appear at the 1st Annual JAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL – San Francisco June 8, 2013

Empty Mirror News

1st ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL Saturday, JUNE 8 2 shows, 7:30 & 9:00 AL YOUNG accompanied with bass MICHAEL McCLURE with GEORGE BROOKS on sax SFJAZZ Laureate ISHMAEL REED … [Read more...]

Review – Alleycats and Beatsters: The Hip, the Gone, and the Way Gone

Denise Enck

How Hip Was My Alley by Kenton Crowther

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, … [Read more...]

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

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 … [Read more...]

Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”

Paul Maher Jr.

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

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 … [Read more...]

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

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 … [Read more...]

A “lost” Jack Kerouac letter found . . . and “lost” again.

Paul Maher Jr.

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

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 … [Read more...]

Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight” to be released as film!

Empty Mirror News

Old Angel Midnight - Kerouac

[box style="info"]Happy April Fool's Day! Sorry for the prank. We couldn't resist. Can't imagine what an Old Angel Midnight would be like...probably unfilmable, right? But while you're here, … [Read more...]

In honor of Jack’s birthday: 4 Kerouac videos

Empty Mirror

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 … [Read more...]

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

"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 … [Read more...]

Review – Free Beer: Kicks and Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Denise Enck

Free Beer: Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

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, … [Read more...]

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac Gide featured image

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 … [Read more...]

Jack Kerouac Woodcut T-Shirts Now Available!

Loren Kantor

Loren Kantor - Kerouac woodcut and t-shirt

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 … [Read more...]

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