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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) | 11/26/2009
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) | 11/26/2009
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) | 11/25/2009
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...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Almost every song on the album sounds like a Grade A piece of Americana, but it’s almost impossible to distance these songs from their whole. That former Uncle Tupelo member and current Son Volt leader Jay Farrar would attempt to record an album of songs that pay tribute to Beat Generation hero Jack Kerouac via his novel Big Sur isn’t too surprising. Farrar has always had an eye and a voice...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Innovative editor, publisher and literary agent with a love of the good life William Miller, who has died aged 75, lived a life of many passions, but perhaps the most enduring of these was to try to make "good books popular and popular books good". And, first as an editor, then as a publisher, and finally as an agent, that is what Miller did. His first job was as an editor under Frank Rudman,...
Dante and the Lobster (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The murder that fascinated the Beats and serves as the narrative focus of the jointly written novel "And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks" doesn't happen until twenty pages before the end. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac wrote alternating chapters in 1944 in what's being billed as crime fiction. The slim novel plods along spending most of its pages on folks scrounging drinks and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland Writing is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's the first impression you get from this fourth anthology of interviews with authors about their art, which are arranged chronologically from William Styron in 1954 to Marilynne Robinson in 2008. "Let's...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Google hasn’t traditionally engaged in large-scale advertising campaigns. Instead, it has relied mainly on word of mouth to become the $180 billion company it is today. However in the last year, the company has rolled out bigger and bigger paid advertising efforts (as many mature brands start to do). That includes the Go Google campaign back in August, promoting Google apps as a reliable alternative...
Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
With a mountain of luggage and Jack Kerouac as company, Alan Mascarenhas endures a day at LAX. A 13-hour stopover in Los Angeles – it ...
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
this kindof says it all… i walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a southern pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry. jack kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts of the soul, bleak and blue [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
If you imagine a soundtrack for 1950s-60s beat writer Jack Kerouac, it’s surely bebop, not country-folk. But that didn’t stop Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar from collaborating on One Fast Move or I’m Gone, a rootsy set of songs loosely based on a Kerouac novel. Would the legendary scribe [...]
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Forty years ago today, Jack Kerouac died. Not for him the glorious blaze that's the proverbial price of a life lived too fast. At the age of 47, he may have died relatively young, but he didn't leave a good-looking corpse. Kerouac had retreated into the philosophical if not actual loneliness of the writer's life, and died in hospital after vomiting much of his vitality out into the toilet of the home...
Word Up (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself." ~ Jack Kerouac
kingblind (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
While Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar have had their share of differences since the acrimonious breakup of Uncle Tupelo, at least they now have one rather remarkable thing in common -- they've both had the opportunity to collaborate with a noted American writer who happened to be dead. In 1998, Tweedy's group Wilco joined forces with Billy Bragg on the album Mermaid Avenue, in which they set a handful of...
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