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Austinist (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
Image from the HRC of hand-written draft of \"Infinite Jest\" Adding to what is already a treasure trove of materials from writers including Anne Sexton, Neal Cassady, James Joyce, Don Dellilo, and many more, the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center recently announced the acquisition of the late David Foster Wallace's archives . Wallace is perhaps best known for his mammoth,...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 03/05/2010
... of the Grateful Dead and a supporting cast that includes Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and other cultural figures linked to the band. Sam and Samantha are the constants, Larkins said, because “they’ve become male and female icons for the band.” The artist, who has just published “Startling Art!,” a collection of his paintings, added that “these two figures...
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<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 02/16/2010
Today at the tree-tucked magic barn of Grey Matter Books in Hadley, MA, I bought for $8 the very first issue of Genesis West, the magazine Gordon Lish edited pre-Quarterly, so we’re talking on the fun bus with Neal Cassady and not out to lunch with Raymond Carver. Grey Matter Books had the entire set [...]
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Colorado beat generation icon Neal Cassady, a.k.a. — Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" and unnamed but immortalized by Ken Kesey and Hunter Thompson — would be 84 on Monday if he were still alive.
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Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Beat icon Neal Cassady, who once wandered Denver's skid row as a kid, would have been 84 tomorrow. It's hard to imagine the motor-mouthed, free-living inspiration for Jack Kerouac's Dean Moriarty character in On the Road as an old man, but that's what Neal would have been,...
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Time to Write (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
... his interactions, carnal and otherwise, with such Beat Generation superstars as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Ginsberg's longtime mate, Peter Orlovsky.” I imagine “Howl” won’t be troubling any of the big summer movies with its box office revenue unless teen movie-goers think it's about a werewolf, but I’m always happy to see film-makers trying some different approaches. On that basis...
