| 单词 | Kerouac |
| 例句 | The sluggers have fallen in love with Kerouac and Keats and Woolf and Shakespeare, and hope I’ll press the button to preserve our literature for other alien races to explore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “My dad’s a huge fan of Jack Kerouac.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was a Jack Kerouac quote their dad loved to repeat when the family deliberated weekend plans. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He made the honor roll every semester, but unburdened by practicalities, he had daydreams about leaving school, traveling the country à la Jack Kerouac—only writing songs instead of poems. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t have guessed Jack Kerouac would be this young, and from her dad’s descriptions she hadn’t pictured him as someone who wore argyle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “My dad’s a huge fan of Jack Kerouac.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A prep school kid, a touch arty, wearing an old man’s suit and no doubt reading Camus or Kerouac. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t have guessed Jack Kerouac would be this young, and from her dad’s descriptions she hadn’t pictured him as someone who wore argyle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was a Jack Kerouac quote their dad loved to repeat when the family deliberated weekend plans. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They had nicknamed the minivan Sal, another homage to the great and almighty Jack Kerouac. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Flush at the Fillmore, Dad. That’s, like, my Jack Kerouac and my City Lights. I have to go to that concert. I’ll never have this chance again!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They had nicknamed the minivan Sal, another homage to the great and almighty Jack Kerouac. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Or I should say, the one and only City Lights. I imagine there are many bookstores in San Francisco. But City Lights is at the top of my list for Jack Kerouac and Beats-related spots.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z No Jack Kerouac quote could help her now. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z No Jack Kerouac quote could help her now. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Flush at the Fillmore, Dad. That’s, like, my Jack Kerouac and my City Lights. I have to go to that concert. I’ll never have this chance again!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Or I should say, the one and only City Lights. I imagine there are many bookstores in San Francisco. But City Lights is at the top of my list for Jack Kerouac and Beats-related spots.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The other image from 1964 shows a prematurely aged, grumpy-looking Kerouac slumped in an armchair on the last day he ever visited Ginsberg in Manhattan. Art Review: ‘Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg’ 2013-01-17T20:55:35Z There are websites that give you the recipes for their trademark drinks: Faulkner's mint julep, Hemingway's mojito, Chandler's gimlet, Kerouac's margarita, Fitzgerald's gin rickey. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z Our friendship originated deep in the time before marriage and kids, deep in the B.B.V., back when we wore flannel and still thought Jack Kerouac was a good writer. In Search of Lost Me Time 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The four-day event honoring Kerouac is sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Mass. city to hold expanded Jack Kerouac festival 2010-09-27T22:44:00Z Next month, she'll appear in "On the Road," based on the iconic Jack Kerouac novel. Where do the `Twilight' stars go from here? 2012-11-17T17:15:14Z As Kerouac predicted to their mutual friend and mentor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Someday ‘The Letters of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac’ will make America cry.” Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z Here are some of our favorite places to pretend we’re Jack Kerouac: Sky’s the limit for the best hiking workout with views 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z I read “On the Road” for first time when researching this book, and I was bowled over: Kerouac really found a way of putting the wellsprings of his own life down on the page. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z Kerouac wrote to Cowley about one of his interventions: “It was like a lamp suddenly being lit in the darkness, like that. It was a selfless gift of kindness.” Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z Kerouac, constitutionally unable to remain with one woman, shouted back, “Unrequited love’s a bore!” Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “Bob Dylan hitchhiked from Minnesota to New York because he thought it was cool — he wanted to be like Jack Kerouac.” Thumbs up for three new books that capture hitchhiking’s adventurous spirit 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Kerouac’s has all the urban accouterments, including seasonal, local ingredients and a fully stocked bar. A Nevada Park That, at 77,000 Acres, Sneaks in Under the Tourist Radar 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z I have a relationship with Jack Kerouac myself. Arts & Leisure: Walter Salles Adapts Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ 2012-05-23T23:42:34Z Among the many albums Mr. Wood recorded was Jack Kerouac’s “Poetry for the Beat Generation,” accompanied by Steve Allen at the piano. Randy Wood, Founder of Dot Records, Dies at 94 2011-04-15T01:17:54Z Rachel Shteir quotes Kerouac’s sentence prominently in “The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting,” her new book, which is prickly and intelligent in its first half before collapsing, like a heat-stricken marathoner, in its second. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z Lowry became a friend, as did writers with much higher name recognition, among them Conrad Aiken and Jack Kerouac. David Markson, Postmodern Novelist, Dies at 82 2010-06-08T03:22:00Z Naturally, we had to include this classic made famous by Kerouac’s 1956 stay. Sky’s the limit for the best hiking workout with views 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z And, as Kerouac insisted, they were put together not from the safe distance of his deathbed – but on the run. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z “He was not into that Kerouac stuff at all,” Mr. Shoemaker said. Searching for Evan S. Connell’s Bohemian Sausalito 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z I’m compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there. ArtsBeat: A Macabre Mystery: Poe Ballantine Talks About Memoir and True Crime 2013-09-04T20:44:29Z There are selections from the library’s 45,000-strong collection of menus, a manuscript by Jack Kerouac written at a cafeteria and W. H. Auden’s piquant 1947 poem “In Schrafft’s,” perhaps drafted on site. Exhibition Review: ‘Lunch Hour NYC’ Opens at the New York Public Library 2012-06-22T22:04:35Z Years after his cameo in “Don’t Look Back,” Ginsberg would accompany Dylan on a visit to Kerouac’s grave. The Beats’ Countercultural Ferment Still Bubbles, in Paris 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Kerouac, a heterosexual to his fingertips, groaned and accepted. Allen Ginsberg interview: From the archive, 24 April 1985 2013-04-24T06:30:00Z Visions of Gerard reminds us that Kerouac didn't write the books in order, instead flitting magpie-like through his own memories to write a book about childhood here, a memoir of his Beat adventures there. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Nicosia's title, Memory Babe, was one of Kerouac's childhood nicknames, earned by prodigious feats of recollection. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z The caption says that Kerouac is on DMT brought back from Millbrook, which explains why he is “shuddering with mortal horror.” Art Review: ‘Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg’ 2013-01-17T20:55:35Z Kerouac, a fast typist, decided that he would ignore punctuation, paragraph breaks and traditional form, and type the story in one long sustained burst of energy. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z Long before air travel was commercially viable for the majority of the population, Kerouac tapped into peoples' romantic imaginings of life on the open road. The Magic of Kerouac, On the Road and Teenage Experience 2012-07-06T11:00:00Z Even Kerouac told Mr. Lord to stop submitting it, but Mr. Lord kept at it, and finally got an offer from Viking for a $900 advance. At 99, the Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Has a New Novel 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z As he fielded queries after the reading, he mentioned that he was decamping to teach at something called the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in, of all places, Boulder, Colo. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The open road for Chaplin, as later for Kerouac, is the path, not to oblivion, but to freedom. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Kerouac could not have missed the building’s symbolism. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z “And I watch him rush off to his death,” Kerouac wrote in “Duluoz.” Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z He's like Kerouac, I thought, refusing to be tied down to bourgeois values. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z This was before I read “On the Road,” before I found out Kerouac's legend was more interesting than his work. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z "He went from appearing on poetry bills with Kerouac and Ginsberg to being a far greater seller of poetry than either." 'King of Kitsch' Rod McKuen dies 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z In the 1950s, when he was representing Jack Kerouac, he spent several years trying to sell “On the Road,” which every major publishing house rejected. At 99, the Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Has a New Novel 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Kerouac died in 1969 after a haemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Neal Cassady: Drug-taker. Bigamist. Family man 2011-01-16T21:30:00Z Mr. Gifford’s approach drew from Kerouac’s first novel, “The Town and the City,” as well as Kerouac’s book of essays, “Lonesome Traveler.” Arts & Leisure: Walter Salles Adapts Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ 2012-05-23T23:42:34Z Inside Kerouac’s weather-beaten knapsack and wrapped in a newspaper, Mr. Lord recalled, was a manuscript that Kerouac handed gingerly to him. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The direct sequel is Visions of Cody, concentrating on Kerouac's image of Cassady as the last great American pioneer cowboy hobo. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Missing a beat: Sam Riley as Kerouac's nom de plume, Sal Paradise. Why On The Road's journey is a bumpy ride 2012-10-05T16:00:00Z Film footage of American landscape, extracts from Kerouac's recordings, and nicely period dance details all provide exactly what this programme needs: a coherent vision. Yorke Dance Project – review 2012-11-15T17:55:01Z I loved that scene in the Lowell library, Lowell, Mass., where you say Jack Kerouac spent all that time. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z If you’ve read “The Razor’s Edge,” you’re likely to be familiar with the cross-country starts and stops that make up ON THE ROAD, by Jack Kerouac, and SIDDHARTHA, Hermann Hesse’s spiritual fable. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Vega’s life course was set when, as a teenager in Union City, N.J., she read Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68 2011-01-03T04:09:45Z At dusk I went out to the pasture & saw thru Kerouac’s eyes the sun set on October universe, the first sun set on the first dusk after his death. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z “We’ve made it clear that the letter belongs to the estate of Jack Kerouac and should be returned,” a representative for Kerouac's estate told the San Francisco Chronicle. Auction of rare Cassady-Kerouac letter canceled 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In addition to written material, the new cache includes artifacts like an early passport misspelling Kerouac’s last name and a number of personal and family photographs labeled in his own hand. Emory Acquires Trove of Rare Jack Kerouac Material 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z I am thinking of Kerouac as our train, the Southwest Chief, trundles over a moonlit Mississippi River, exchanging cornfield Iowa for the western plains, as he did more than 70 years ago. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z He worked to get Kerouac, who was broke, financial support. Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z But it took him so long to sell it that a discouraged Kerouac asked him to pull it off the market. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z On her own, she founded the Poets Press and for years taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, in Boulder, Colorado. Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The new film about Jack Kerouac - On the Road - takes us back into the angst ridden, hard drinking and living world of the Beat generation poets. VIDEO: Beat poets curious legacy in Tangiers 2012-10-02T07:33:15Z Kerouac’s first published novel, is the autobiographical story of his Massachusetts family’s gradual decline. Making “Manhattan Beach” 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z We were a family of Jack Kerouacs with glitter stencils. Unplugged Along the California Coast 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z She is just as good on the experience of people of “Franco American” background in this country, quoting Jack Kerouac about “that horrible homelessness of all French Canadians abroad in America.” Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z Mr. Lord was a fledgling Manhattan literary agent in 1952 when, by his account, Kerouac walked timidly into his office, a basement studio on East 36th Street, just off Park Avenue. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Jack Kerouac said he got the idea for the spontaneous style of “On the Road” from reading his friend Neal Cassady’s buzzing letters. Mourning the Letters That Will No Longer Be Written, and Remembering the Great Ones That Were 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z I wish Jack Kerouac had lived to be a thousand years old. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “Books like Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ have a different kind of influence as well. Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z And he had rarely seen the author's darker side, reasoning that he was a parental figure for whom Kerouac remained on his best behavior. A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z “At twenty-six, at the embarrassing end of a series of attempts at channelling Kerouac, I was beyond broke, back in my home town, living in my aunt and uncle’s basement.” Sunday Reading: The Holidays 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Kerouac had put his finger on one of America’s founding impulses. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z What is beyond dispute is that Kerouac stuck with Mr. Lord. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Kerouac, another Columbian, was ushered in a few months later when he met Carr at the West End, the saloon at 2911 Broadway, a 60-yard dash away from Columbia’s College Walk. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z I ordered a photocopy of Kerouac’s Marilyn Monroe letter during my visit to Butler and have kept it at hand ever since. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Ginsberg, Kerouac and other writers from that era were Easterners who dropped into San Francisco for a spell. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were acolytes, captivated by Carr’s profane rants about bourgeois culture and the path to transcendence through pure creative expression — his “New Vision,” after “A Vision” by Yeats. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z It’s also something Kerouac thought should be broadcast to the world. Neal Cassady's Famous Lost Letter to Jack Kerouac to Be Auctioned 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road,” is how Kerouac puts it. Springsteen’s Most Anxious Album 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z They do this despite the fact that Kerouac and Ginsberg were expansive letter writers, that each wrote to many correspondents, and that reams of these other letters have already shown up elsewhere. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z It was Jack Kerouac and Susan Sontag, and it was a one-night thing. AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z Along the way he encountered a few "veterans", but most of the kids he photographed rode trains for a few years as a kind of teenage rite of passage, more Jack Kerouac than Huck Finn. Mike Brodie's freight train photographs: 'It's a romantic life, at least in the spring and summer' 2013-03-30T17:00:00Z But in reality, I was already a Kerouac convert. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z That stone in the ground confirmed that Kerouac took his final trip on 21 October 1969 – 82 days before I was born. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Rereading Kerouac's novels as one huge, episodic work takes me back to that day I spent at his graveside after pounding through a heatwave. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z While Ginsberg enjoyed the adoration that came with fame, Kerouac drifted into alcoholism. Neal Cassady: Drug-taker. Bigamist. Family man 2011-01-16T21:30:00Z When he was two, the family moved to New York; he went to high school in the Bronx, where he was two years behind Jack Kerouac. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z Jack Kerouac outside a bar on New York's Bleecker Street in October 1958, the year after On the Road was published. Pass notes No 3,178: Jack Kerouac 2012-05-20T19:00:01Z It also contains manuscripts and correspondence dating from the 1940s to the 1960s, including a letter in which Kerouac teased Ginsberg about his promiscuous epistolary habits. Emory Acquires Trove of Rare Jack Kerouac Material 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Oh hell, I’m sick of life — If I had any guts I’d drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn’t be getting over at all,” groans Jack Duluoz, Kerouac’s alter ego. David Bowie and the sad, inspiring history of making art while dying 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Jack Kerouac once wrote a letter to his friend William S. Burroughs asking if it was dangerous to travel to Mexico. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z He studied creative writing at San Francisco State University, and among his influences were the members of that city's 1950s beat scene, Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso. Longtime LA beat poet Scott Wannberg dead at 58 2011-08-24T22:22:11Z The material, which has not been processed, contains a typescript for the play “Beat Generation,” which Kerouac wrote after the success of “On the Road” in 1957. Emory Acquires Trove of Rare Jack Kerouac Material 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In many ways, he ventriloquizes the Great American Unhinged Voice that also howls through the works of doomed road-trip writers such as Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Hunter Thompson. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The Boston-based Skinner will offer the Kerouac materials at its Rare Books & Manuscripts sale on Nov. 16. Newly discovered Jack Kerouac letters to be auctioned 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Gerald Nicosia, the author of “Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac,” is currently working on a critical biography of Shange for St. Martin’s. Review | Ntozake Shange, author of ‘for colored girls,’ returns with powerful new poems 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The best of Kerouac meshes absolutely with the best of Frank, though a generation short of the photographer’s honesty: a view of life not only in the moment but in the instant. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He would grow friskier, more pragmatic and less self-dramatizing during the course of his long correspondence with Kerouac, but one thing never changed: Ginsberg’s insistence on keeping the friendship alive. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z For Frey to be inspired, as many writers have, by the heavily embellished storytelling of Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac makes sense. James Frey's infuriating return to "Oprah" 2011-05-16T22:30:00Z It was Warhol's first visit to the West Coast and they decided to go in style, in a homage to Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Farewell Taylor Mead: Warhol muse and saint of the avant garde 2013-05-10T14:16:18Z Cred-conscious, music-loving friends had recommended Jack Kerouac's On the Road to me, which seemed just as fantastic and magical as they said it was until I actually tried to read it. TC Boyle: 'It's a godless world, without hope' 2012-10-13T23:06:05Z “Everything I read, the writers I was interested in—Burroughs, Kerouac—it all came back to New York.” Vince Aletti’s Obsessive Collection of Seminal Fashion Magazines 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Shteir shares, on a certain level, Kerouac’s abiding fondness for grifters and scammers and bandits, at least those of the stylish and relatively harmless kind. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z In this, at least, he resembles the literary lions of another age, the likes of Mailer, Kerouac or Bukowski, who wrote it having first lived it. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z Noted is a five-part work inspired by the letters of five historical figures; City Limitless is a series of vignettes taken from the life and work of Jack Kerouac. Yorke Dance Project – review 2012-11-15T17:55:01Z Lord also has lived to see "On the Road" finally come out last year as a movie, a process that began decades earlier when Kerouac had hoped to interest Marlon Brando. A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z He says he seeks much of his inspiration from writers such as Frank O'Hara and Jack Kerouac and the postwar American art of Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston. Bryce Dessner talks about his 'double life' as a classical, rock musician 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Lord writes in his book that Kerouac was essentially a shy man who didn't know how to handle the attention. A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z When Lord met Kerouac, the young Beat already had published a novel, "The Town and the City." A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z On the evening of October 21, 1969, Allen Ginsberg received a telephone call from the journalist Al Aronowitz: Jack Kerouac had died, earlier that day, in a Florida hospital. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z I read Kerouac — I didn’t think he was good, but I still read him. They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z But many were written well before, as part of a huge history Kerouac had first envisaged 14 years earlier, when he was just 21, called The Duluoz Legend. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Bouvier – the Jack Kerouac of Switzerland – inspired a generation of young 1960s Europeans on to the road, taking me with them. What travel writers are reading right now 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z On the Road turned out to be a reverential, pedestrian adaptation of the Kerouac novel, more like reading a dutiful Penguin Classics introduction than experiencing a Benzedrine-fuelled Roman-candle burst through the American night. So that was the Cannes film festival... 2012-05-28T11:56:03Z Construction of the trail, one of America’s earliest scenic roads, began in 1912, a decade before Kerouac was born. Journeys: Driving the Mohawk Trail in Massachusetts 2012-10-04T16:29:55Z On my desk in front of me, as I type this, is my Jack Kerouac mug, bought a good 15 years ago from a shop in Oxford. Book merchandise gets weird 2010-03-17T08:00:00Z With a different title, he might still have evoked aspects of Kerouac while, in a good way, calling much else to mind. Rendering ‘On the Road’ as Dance? That and Other Audacities 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Kerouac, I remembered, was 34 during his time on Desolation Peak and did stints in the Navy and the merchant marine. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z Krokidas eventually secured financing for "Kill Your Darlings," which chronicles a dark and deadly period in the youths of Ginsberg and fellow future beat writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Seen and heard at Sundance 2013-01-22T22:42:08Z While Kerouac was angry with Ginsberg's carelessness, apparently that story wasn't true. Auction of rare Cassady-Kerouac letter canceled 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z That's what Skinner Inc. is offering up for auction: A newly discovered cache of letters by Jack Kerouac dating back to 1939. Newly discovered Jack Kerouac letters to be auctioned 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z His interest in the Beats can be traced back to the early nineteen-seventies, when he began translating several excerpts from Jack Kerouac’s book-length poem “Mexico City Blues.” Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Anyone who knows Kerouac’s novel could watch this dance with a list of “buts” accumulating in her head. Rendering ‘On the Road’ as Dance? That and Other Audacities 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Bruce Springsteen’s song lyrics have injected more drama and mystery into the myths of the American road than any figure since Jack Kerouac. Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir: Riding Shotgun With the Boss 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Along with her husband, Danish illustrator Thomas Warming, Sloan is spending her summer in Orlando, Fla., living in Jack Kerouac's old home as a writer in residence there. For Maya Sloan, ghostwriting Jenners' YA book just part of fiction fun 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z After all, Kerouac has emerged as a prototype of the mid-century modern misogynist. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z I drive past the unsuspecting little house on Clouser Avenue and wonder what led Kerouac to this place. Finding My Florida 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Affirmation from Carr was the sine qua non of Kerouac’s manhood. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Well-known artists like Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol appeared in advertisements, linking creative iconography to the Gap heritage. Was the Gap Ever Cool? A Look at 50 Years in Denim and Khaki 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Joyce Johnson was 21 and not long out of Barnard College when, in the winter of 1957, Allen Ginsberg set her up on a blind date with Jack Kerouac. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z This movie looks at a real murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. The Carpetbagger: From Sundance, a Competition Slate That Could Be Called Accessible 2012-11-28T21:00:48Z Inspired by Jack Kerouac, he traveled across the country by bus and in strangers’ cars, writing short sketches about his experiences along the way. In ‘Idiot Wind,’ a Lost Soul Finds His Way Home 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Thoreau’s Concord, Kerouac insisted after visiting Walden, was best experienced in “blue aquamarine in October red sereness.” Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Academicians and amateur enthusiasts have cranked out scores of books on Kerouac and the other Beats, parsing and parrying over every detail of their work and their lives. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z He introduced her to Jack Kerouac, with whom she had a relationship that he called his greatest love affair. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and the voice of the Beats 2011-02-23T20:30:00Z Adult audiences are targeted with upscale fare including Walter Salles's Jack Kerouac adaptation On the Road and quirky indie romance Ruby Sparks from the directors of Little Miss Sunshine. Taken 2 takes UK box office by storm – and surprise 2012-10-09T13:52:27Z Cummings, with a dash of Jack Kerouac thrown for good measure.” Jill Johnston, Critic Who Wrote ?Lesbian Nation,? Dies at 81 2010-09-21T04:16:00Z She has a small part in Walter Salles’s already completed adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and a big one in the large-scale science-fiction romance “Upside Down,” both set to open next year. The New Season Film: Kirsten Dunst Handles ?Melancholia? Disaster With Aplomb 2011-09-18T03:53:02Z Yes, I carried a teddy bear with me on my swashbuckling Jack Kerouac adventure. Every woman should travel alone 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z Ginsberg recorded fragments of his thoughts and memories of Kerouac in his journals, as he had done when he learned of Cassady’s death. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z In it, Jack Kerouac is leaning toward a radio speaker, listening to a broadcast of himself reading, his hand curled around a stubby volume knob, a mix of self-interest and disdain squeezing his face. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It's sadder than the edited version which is more to Kerouac's desired effect on the reader. Tips, links and suggestions: Tell us about the books you are reading today 2013-01-08T15:28:03Z He remained close to Ginsberg and Kerouac, even as he tried to scrub himself from Beat history. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z “Kerouac embraced the pageantry of Catholicism,” he said, adding that he also painted many Buddhas. Two Rebel Figures, One Traditional Painting 2011-06-08T22:47:38Z Living in New York in 1941, Kerouac writes in one letter that he will return home to Lowell, Mass., for a weekend, typing in red ink, "because that is where the road began." Newly discovered Jack Kerouac letters to be auctioned 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z But joining Stewart and Sam Riley in the 2012 film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," despite mixed reviews, opened doors for the brooding, gravel-voiced actor. 30 actors under 30 who matter 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Doctor Sax comes next, mingling Kerouac's boyhood and his love of such pulp heroes as The Shadow with a dark, mythic tale that Ginsberg dismissed as "undigested fantasy". Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Fred saw the artists who helped define the time—Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan—as poets scratching lyrics and stories out of the New York air. Gay Pride and Stonewall, Through the Eyes of Fred W. McDarrah 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The signature Kerouac style, with its breathless run-on sentences, neologisms and portmanteau words, appeals to romantics and teenagers because it simulates excitement. A new look at Jack Kerouac, from the Library of America 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Hundreds of fans eagerly awaited her return Thursday as she walked the red carpet for her latest film, "On the Road," based on the Jack Kerouac novel. 'Twilight's' Kristen Stewart back in the spotlight 2012-09-07T06:32:09Z They are showing manuscripts from Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and a typescript of Bob Dylan’s “Changing of the Guards.” Robert Caro and Carnegie Hall: Revisiting the ’60s 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z By the ’70s, the creative ambience and radical politics in Boulder were so convivial that Ginsberg agreed to found the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with another New York poet, Anne Waldman. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Lowell, just north of Boston, is not only the birthplace of Jack Kerouac but the setting of five of his novels, the best of which I regard as “Vanity of Duluoz,” from 1968. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Finish with a stroll around Washington Square Park paying homage to poets and writers from Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Carrie Soukup, 31, of Austin, Texas, met Sell about a decade ago while he was reading the work of Jack Kerouac in a Missouri coffee shop before a concert. Guitarist for Lucky Boys Confusion found dead on West Side 2012-05-17T09:00:00Z Lonesome Traveler is more a collection of essays about Kerouac working and travelling around the States. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Many of the two men’s letters went to separate university archives, Kerouac’s to Columbia, and Ginsberg’s to the University of Texas. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z Writers like Jack Kerouac, artists such as Jackson Pollock, and urban activists like Jane Jacobs were all emboldened by the area’s heady way of life. Check Out Ralph Lauren Home’s West Village Collection 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “He sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world,” Kerouac wrote. Wanting to See Like Robert Frank 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The exhibition gives the viewer a glimpse of the early years of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs as their literary importance began to grow. In pictures 2011-01-26T09:03:11Z He added, “The person I had read about with Kerouac and Ginsberg didn’t exist anymore.” Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z That surprises me since this overlooked document seems to add an important piece of evidence of Kerouac’s infantilism when it comes to women—and, more broadly, a distillation of American male misogyny, circa 1962. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z For the past six months he has been travelling all over America, shooting Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Sam Riley shot to fame as the doomed Ian Curtis in Control. Now he's playing creepy Pinkie in Brighton Rock 2011-01-12T08:00:03Z He wanted to promote her; she left instead to visit Kerouac in Mexico and write. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The song, which Perry also claimed was a tribute to Jack Kerouac, was written in 2009, well before Tyler Clementi’s suicide made the issue of anti-gay bullying a nationwide topic of conversation. In the face of the Trump presidency, Katy Perry asserts her political self, but to what end? 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z But sometimes people need to find themselves elsewhere, like when Jack Kerouac famously chronicled his wanderlust in “On the Road.” Cheryl Strayed, Noah Baumbach and Sean Penn: 8 great movies about leaving home to find yourself 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were fairly steady patrons of the Tangerinn, one of the city’s oldest, haziest pubs. The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The introduction was by “On the Road” novelist Jack Kerouac, who directly addressed his subject: “To Robert Frank I now give you this message: You got eyes.” Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Kerouac and his peers were ahead of their time when Hollywood first came calling, and the resulting mutual incomprehension gave us George Peppard in The Subterraneans. Why On The Road's journey is a bumpy ride 2012-10-05T16:00:00Z "Jack" was Jack Kerouac and the charged relationships between him, Ginsberg and Neal Cassady were famously fictionalised in Kerouac's novel On The Road. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and the voice of the Beats 2011-02-23T20:30:00Z Kerouac was ready to give up, but not Lord. A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z She's reading Kerouac's Mexico City Blues and instructing me to buy a pair of blue jeans. Richard Williams on France's brilliant early-60s pop radio 2010-08-26T20:59:00Z A grumpy reference to Kerouac’s “On The Road” as “forgettable,” has, I see, been excised—though a second search shows that it was out already in the 1990 edition. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Aristotle, one of Nick Butler’s darlings, might have lectured Kerouac about pathos. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Vesuvio is a cozy space of dark wood, tiled floors and stained glass, with framed photos of the neighborhood greats — Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti — covering the walls. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z Now, instead of atmosphere, Chumley’s has décor; the book jackets and photographs are elements in a haunted house attraction featuring the ghosts of Hemingway and Kerouac. The New Chumley’s Raises the Culinary Bar 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z As William S. Burroughs once said of Jack Kerouac, his book “sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent countless kids on the road.” Woodstock Was the Birthplace of Festival Fashion 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Kerouac frequently connected it to the Abominable Snowman, but to me it looked like the back of some Cascadian dragon, wings folded as it waited until night to hunt. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z A scene from On the Road, Walter Salles's adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel The Cannes festival is, famously, the keeper of the flame of the auteur tradition. Cannes film festival set to honour the bookworm 2012-05-18T17:11:09Z In the summer of 1956, Kerouac was still an anonymous wandering soul looking for truth in America’s boxcars, bars and wildernesses. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z In the seductive collection they’ve called “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters,” the editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford stake out a distinct piece of literary turf. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z Independence: I could go anywhere on my Chopper, answerable to no one, the Jack Kerouac of Broughton Park. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z It deals with the older brother Kerouac adored, who died when the writer was just four. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z But Mr. Lord proved powerless to halt Kerouac’s decline into alcoholism and drugs, during which Mr. Lord would sometimes spring for his groceries. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Wakefield’s history is crammed with the era’s larger than life personalities: Norman Mailer, Thelonious Monk, Jack Kerouac and so many more. If You Love ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ You’ll Love These Books 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z My eyes latched onto the corner bookshelf lined with Kerouac paperbacks. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z And that was that — until a year later, when Nix grew obsessed with this empty old warehouse in Viroqua and finally contacted the owner, who asked whether the Kerouac book had arrived yet. In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Nix sold him a copy, along with a preorder for “Wake Up,” Jack Kerouac’s posthumously published biography of the Buddha. In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z When young, he looked a bit like Jack Kerouac. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z She had a romance with Jack Kerouac and, before meeting Mailer, was in a relationship with Edwin Fancher, who later founded The Village Voice with Mailer and Dan Wolf. Adele Mailer, Artist Who Married Norman Mailer, Dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z As figures such as Poe, Melville, Kerouac and Springsteen have shown, there’s a shadowy restlessness to American culture, a yen to go where nobody is quite sure where you are, especially yourself. The brief, wondrous life of Hank Williams 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It was Jack Kerouac, and wrapped inside a newspaper was the manuscript for what became "On the Road." A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z Kerouac liked to hang out at City Lights and at Vesuvio Cafe, a famous bar across the street. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z There are shrewd portraits of not just Kerouac and Ginsberg but people like Robert Frank and Hettie Jones. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The overall effect, however, is to make Moriarty a far less attractive figure than he is when seen exclusively from Kerouac's point of view. On the Road – review 2012-10-13T23:06:07Z Kerouac published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, most famously "On the Road." Mass. city to hold expanded Jack Kerouac festival 2010-09-27T22:44:00Z Huston's recent work includes roles in American Hustle and playing novelist Jack Kerouac in Kill Your Darlings. Huston set to star in Ben-Hur remake 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z In one of Allen Ginsberg’s more crazily virtuosic letters to his sometime soul mate, Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg included an apology of sorts. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z There’s many more: a Sylvia Plath scent, Poe’s Leonore, cologne inspired by Kerouac, and his and hers “Literary Lovers” perfumes called Catherine and Heathcliff. Radiant children, the future of football and eau de literary hero 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z I wound down the window, smelling “the wild lyrical drizzling air of Nebraska,” as Kerouac rhapsodized in “On the Road.” Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z Jack Kerouac drinks “jumbo beers” in the hot sun. Los Angeles Through the Centuries, Glimpsed by Kerouac, de Beauvoir, Waugh and Others 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Here, I found playing cards, a sled, a Kerouac novel and two unopened bags of marshmallows, perhaps the last evidence of an abandoned plan for s’mores. Explorer: Where Alaskan Adventurers Lay Their Heads 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z He studied with Woody Guthrie, inspired Bob Dylan and hung out with Jack Kerouac. At 91, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Still Wants to Tell You a Story 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z More literary adaptation than biopic, the movie uses the fiction alter egos Kerouac created for the novel. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: An Early Look at 'On the Road' 2012-05-23T16:03:06Z Kerouac wrote the introduction to the American edition of Mr. Frank’s book. Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Instead, he likens it to what Truman Capote once said about the writing of Jack Kerouac: “That’s not writing, it’s typing.” ‘The Boomer List’ at the Newseum captures a segment of the largest generation It was only after completing the cross-country trips chronicled in “The Americans” that Mr. Frank met Jack Kerouac, who had written about his own American journeys in the 1957 novel “On the Road.” Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The Kerouac news deeply saddened Ginsberg but did not surprise him. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z This was part of the Beatniks’ famed approach to extemporization—the way Kerouac and his contemporaries transmuted the mundane. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s also a fascinating blueprint of Bolaño’s poetics and of the extent to which he drew from the Beat literature of William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Dylan and Ginsberg talking about Shakespeare’s sonnets at Jack Kerouac’s grave, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Chaotic Magic of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Bolaño was fascinated by how Kerouac infused his verse with the register and musicality of the city that surrounded him, and he wanted “The Spirit of Science Fiction” to achieve a similar effect. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z It was for his association with another writer, Jack Kerouac, and Kerouac’s book “On the Road,” that Mr. Lord will most likely be remembered most, though his claim there is disputed. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Jack Kerouac making a face while walking in New York. Franco Angeli's Photographic Dream - review 2011-07-12T14:09:39Z He not only continued to represent Kerouac but became his friend — Kerouac came to call the guest quarters of the home he shared with his mother in Florida “the Sterling Room.” Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z In this series, we talk a bit about Ginsberg and Kerouac. BBC drama 'The Hour' back to make the 1950s sexy 2012-11-28T18:16:04Z He was talking about Jack Kerouac; he had to reread “On the Road” for one of his classes. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z The book was a solo hash dream, a one-man literary version of a found-footage assembly, sent special-delivery from Kerouac’s soul to the reader’s mind. On the Road: Sex, Drugs and Kristen Stewart 2012-12-20T16:00:10Z Kerouac wrote "Beat Generation" - which draws on his life and those of other Beat writers, including Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg - in 1957, the same year his classic "On the Road" was released. Jack Kerouac play to make its world premiere 2012-03-12T18:32:11Z A familiar photograph shows Chase and Kerouac hamming it up on the campus at Columbia University, where they met in the 1940s. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ? iPad app review 2011-07-22T08:00:01Z Kerouac wanted to call the book "Beat Generation" but in this, as in other matters, he bowed to the experienced editor's judgment. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ? iPad app review 2011-07-22T08:00:01Z Both the Stones movie and “Pull My Daisy,” based on a Kerouac play and featuring fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, featured prearranged scenes shot in a style that made the action appear spontaneous. Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z She leaves Don to go to a party and "act surprised when Jack Kerouac doesn't show". Mad Men: season one, episode two 2010-04-22T18:30:00Z He spent the next two years, as he put it, “trying to be ecstatic like Kerouac and ‘understand America.’ George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z Unbeknown to most, Kesey and his pals — who included Jack Kerouac hero Neal Cassady as official driver — filmed the journey, with plans to edit and release the results. A list of SIFF films coming soon to Seattle 2011-06-10T20:04:03Z His drinking worsened Kerouac died in 1969 when he was just 47. A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z It matters that Edna O’Brien is Irish, certainly, and it’s almost impossible to imagine how the writings of Jack Kerouac or Charles Bukowski could be separated from their life stories. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z "Roll over Kerouac, tell Woody Guthrie the news," Earle warbles on "Down the Road Part II." Review: Earle's album finds reason for optimism 2013-04-15T19:16:05Z Not exactly groundwork for a parallel career as a writer of short stories that register the influence of Hemingway, Kerouac and Carver and quote casually from Proust. Palo Alto by James Franco ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z Things might have been different if only Jack Kerouac had known how to hop a freight train. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Page-Turner The Day After Kerouac Died Fifty years ago, Allen Ginsberg recorded his thoughts about the death of his friend Jack Kerouac, and began writing a new poem. The Best New Yorker Visual and Interactive Stories of 2019 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Williams has played Buckley at least once before, in the company’s “No Great Society,” which staged an episode of “The Steve Allen Show,” in which Jack Kerouac confronted establishment types. Review: Revisiting ‘Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge’ 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z “The only ones for me are the mad ones,” begins Jack Kerouac’s famous sentence. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z “I have nothing to hide,” said Depp, the proud owner of Jack Kerouac’s raincoat and other Beat memorabilia. Pot: Not just for losers! 2012-08-15T11:44:00Z Mr. Lord didn’t keep his original manuscript of Kerouac’s “On the Road,” nor did he ever procure a signed copy for himself. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z I missed most of France, my nose buried in the paperback – captivated, as all 21-year-olds should be, by Kerouac's bebop prose, his freedom and spontaneity. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Kerouac’s heavy drinking over the previous decade had increased to such an extent that his closest friends wondered if he had a death wish. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z But where Kerouac arrives from the north, Bolaño's characters arrive from the south, looking not for the fast life but for a refuge from detention and torture in Chile. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z After we stopped at a Panera for lunch, we got back on the road again without Jack Kerouac. Perspective | Summer reading shouldn’t be a chore 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It was no issue or matter for criticism, though interestingly, Ginsberg uses the word "tolerant" to describe Kerouac's response to his teenage confession. Allen Ginsberg interview: From the archive, 24 April 1985 2013-04-24T06:30:00Z At some point after receiving it, Kerouac lent it to Allen Ginsberg, who passed it to a friend who was living on a houseboat, and “who dropped it, overboard, I presume,” Kerouac later said. Long-Lost Letter to Jack Kerouac Reaches Its Final Destination 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Walter Salles's tale of footloose free spirits in late-1940s USA is generally respectful to the cherished Jack Kerouac novel in that it's stylish, ephemeral and verging on incontinence. Cannes 2012 diary: day eight 2012-05-23T14:43:28Z England didn’t have a W.P.A. or a Leadbelly or a Jack Kerouac. Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z Beat writer Jack Kerouac and poet Gary Snyder also show up as bringing the wilderness movement to a new generation. 'The Quiet World': Douglas Brinkley's history of the struggle to preserve Alaska's wilderness 2011-01-27T00:58:03Z If there’s something of Kerouac in the local artist’s road-trip approach, Tan’s current work also is inspired by Diderot’s encyclopedia, a monument of the European Enlightenment. In the galleries: No day at the beach 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z I think of the preface that Jack Kerouac wrote to “The Americans”: a period piece, indulging Beat longueurs. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z What’s left is mostly stuff that no one wants to remember: the Days of Rage, Nixon’s Silent Majority speech, the death of Jack Kerouac, and Altamont—although these will probably not pass entirely without mention. The Misconception about Baby Boomers and the Sixties 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z I was in my thirties before I could appreciate Kerouac, but I do now. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z "On the Road" was released in 1957, The New York Times raved and Kerouac became a hero for a generation of adventurers. A memoir by Kerouac's agent, Sterling Lord 2013-01-24T13:11:12Z After receiving the letter Kerouac lent it to Allen Ginsberg, who passed it along to another poet, who was living on a houseboat, who “lost the letter, overboard, I presume,” Kerouac said. Long-Lost Letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac Headed to Auction (Again) 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Kerouac was writing to George J. Apostolos, a childhood friend in Lowell. Newly discovered Jack Kerouac letters to be auctioned 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Its publishing arm released books by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and many others. Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z A copy of Kerouac's Visions of Cody and an album featuring Kerouac reading to Steve Allen's piano accompaniment receive no special treatment. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z The first press screening of On the Road, Walter Salles's adaptation of the Jack Kerouac's beat novel, has just wrapped up. Cannes 2012: live blog - day eight 2012-05-23T09:00:00Z Kerouac falls in love, like a sap, with Frank’s image of a beautifully sad elevator girl. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Kerouac was older than Johnson, 34, and still largely unknown. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Immediately after hearing the news of Kerouac’s death, this was not the man Ginsberg remembered. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z I particularly enjoyed Moriarty, a group from France whose parents were mainly American, and who named themselves after the hero in Kerouac's On the Road. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z Counterculture might not have been born with Jack Kerouac, but it certainly looks back to him as the point when being jobless, directionless and homeless became aspirational, at least ideologically. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z A lot of the rare books you own aren’t the ones that usually command the highest prices — say, a first edition of Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Forsaking the Punk Clubs of His Youth for a Well-Stocked Library 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z All of his Kerouac books were gifts from hikers; other hiker-pilgrims would slip poems — Kerouac’s or their own — between the pages when Mr. Otero wasn’t looking. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z It was Capote, not Vidal, who came up with the most waspish dismissal of Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing." The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z My goal was Desolation Peak, the cabin where rookie vedette Jack Kerouac spent 63 eventful days in the summer of 1956. Peak cabin: a fire-spotter's lonely vantage point in Washington state 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Reading this first novel to be published in America by the acclaimed septuagenarian German writer often compared to Kerouac, our reviewer, Ethan Hawke, became “newly excited about getting old.” New in Paperback: ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’ and ‘Sisters’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z I’m certain that other researchers have found and read Kerouac’s appalling letter about Monroe, but I have been unable to find a single published reference to it. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z For Kerouac, who sought comfort in God from a life riven by alcoholism and depression, religious themes like the Crucifixion and the Resurrection “were not a joke,” Mr. Brinkley said. Two Rebel Figures, One Traditional Painting 2011-06-08T22:47:38Z McCann's own transatlantic journey came when he was 18, fired up on the fiction of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Ferlinghetti – "young man's literature", he says. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z Lawrence Ferlinghetti has had a lasting influence on the literary world, particularly on the Beat Generation, which included Jack Kerouac. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z By then, she and Kerouac had separated for good. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Books also furnished the room, including the poems of Rumi and a deckle-edged paperback of Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Hotel Review: Hotel Joaquin, Laguna Beach, Calif. 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z But most people familiar with the men agree that its subject matter was likely chosen by Kerouac. Two Rebel Figures, One Traditional Painting 2011-06-08T22:47:38Z “Kerouac was a working-class boy from Lowell, and it wasn’t too hard to make an identification,” Mr. Banks told the literary journal Ploughshares in 1993. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z That auction was suspended after the Kerouac estate and Cassady’s children said they were the owners. Long-Lost Letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac Headed to Auction (Again) 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Which is unfair, considering all the books and movies dedicated to the often-tedious excursions of solitary men, from Henry David Thoreau to Jack Kerouac to Christopher McCandless. Wild and the Rise of the Lone She-Wolf 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z I think Kerouac has links with Whitman and Thoreau and Robert Lowell: he opens up the soul of America. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z All eyes are on Walter Salles's adaptation of Jack Kerouac's modern classic On the Road, which premieres on Wednesday. Cannes film festival set to honour the bookworm 2012-05-18T17:11:09Z The author, most recently, of the forthcoming Dave Robicheaux murder mystery “The New Iberia Blues” loves the Beat writers: “I wish Jack Kerouac had lived to be a thousand years old.” James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Those initial journal entries are presented here on the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s death. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The former child star plays beat poet Allen Ginsberg as a young student in the throes of literary revolution, along with his contemporaries Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Stars shine brightly at Sundance 2013-01-20T12:19:57Z “It really illustrates the idea of process, the way that Kerouac taped together tracing paper, cut it and then went nuts,” Carey Cranston, the museum’s president, said. An Everyman Museum to Celebrate American Writers 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z On a switchback-filled hike canonized by Jack Kerouac, daredevils can channel their inner beatnik on Desolation Peak Trail. Summer, Reimagined — Minus the Gridlock. Five Alternatives 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Some of the voiceover is taken right from the scroll: in the novel, for instance, Kerouac added “mad to be saved” to the qualities he ticked off in that brightly burning sentence. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: An Early Look at 'On the Road' 2012-05-23T16:03:06Z He went on to cite his influences -- Celine, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac. James Frey's infuriating return to "Oprah" 2011-05-16T22:30:00Z She made papier-mâché models for window displays and hung around Beat authors such as Jack Kerouac, whom she briefly dated. Adele Morales Mailer, half of tempestuous couple, dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z It seemed natural to assume that the Kerouac books published after On the Road were written after it became a bestseller in 1957. Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z The event begins Thursday and will feature tours of places Kerouac frequented and wrote about. Mass. city to hold expanded Jack Kerouac festival 2010-09-27T22:44:00Z Baraka was initially associated with Beat generation poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Poet Amiri Baraka dies, aged 72 2014-01-10T11:15:12Z Yet Jack Kerouac and most of the other Beats all went to this northern Morocco port town and together they left it with a curious literary heritage, as Sylvia Smith reports. VIDEO: Beat poets curious legacy in Tangiers 2012-10-02T07:33:15Z The series was said to have been inspired by Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road and featured weekly guest stars including Robert Redford, Alan Alda and Gene Hackman in some of their earliest roles. Martin Milner, star of 60s series Route 66 and Adam-12, dies aged 83 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z After a nitpick about UPI, Kerouac got to the meat of his message: Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Rivera’s screenplay hews closely to the book, while also using elements excised from the infamous scroll on which Kerouac banged out most of his raw material. Arts & Leisure: Walter Salles Adapts Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ 2012-05-23T23:42:34Z It's based on the classic Jack Kerouac novel, and one of Stewart's favorite books. 'Twilight's' Kristen Stewart back in the spotlight 2012-09-07T07:01:10Z It’s an episodic travelogue, a coming-of-age chronicle and an indictment of grim social conditions, with roughly equal measures of Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger and Charles Dickens in its DNA. Review: Youthful Recklessness Finds Adventure on the Road in ‘American Honey’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In his introduction, Bolaño writes of Kerouac’s “need to perturb the neutral spaces of everyday life, transforming them.” Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Jack Kerouac's On the Road towers above all his other books, and he died an alcoholic aged 47. A literary career or a brilliant, successful one-off? Take your pick 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z There is a writer for everyone out there whether it be Paul Theroux or Bruce Chatwin, James Michener or Jack Kerouac. Thatcher Wine on Creating a Travel Book Library 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z It lasted until Kerouac disappeared into an alcoholic haze and died in 1969, despite Ginsberg’s best efforts to save him. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z The letter was presumed lost after Kerouac lent it to Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Letter that inspired 'On the Road' up for auction 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z While there, Kerouac composed most of “Mexico City Blues.” Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z For an $8 admission fee, you can ogle things like Jack Kerouac’s tweed jacket and Ginsberg’s typewriter. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z This year, we'll see more of her range: first up is the adaptation of Kerouac's On the Road, directed by Walter Salles, in which she plays Jane, "the emotionally damaged junkie mother". Amy Adams: punching above her weight 2011-01-23T00:05:05Z In the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Harrison drifted between studies at Michigan State University and the “Beat” scene in Boston, where he met Jack Kerouac, and New York City before returning to rural Michigan. Jim Harrison, author of ‘Legends of the Fall’ and other books, dies at 78 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z I go to my hotel room and do something I haven’t done since high school: I pick up a copy of Jack Kerouac’s “The Dharma Bums.” Finding My Florida 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z But they turned down Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” An Artist’s Life in Objects, From a Warhol Print to a Postmodern Lamp 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He lost his mother but he found Kerouac and so what they did together had to become huge because the biggest thing in his life was lost. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and the voice of the Beats 2011-02-23T20:30:00Z He began to read his poetry at coffeehouses with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Rod McKuen dies at 81; poetry and songs sold millions and drew critical scorn in the 1960s and ’70s 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Correction: May 23, 2012 An earlier version of this post misstated the timing of Kerouac’s first published novel, “The Town and the City.” ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: An Early Look at 'On the Road' 2012-05-23T16:03:06Z Morgan has condensed these addresses, organizing them around the figures Ginsberg discusses: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Ginsberg himself. New in Paperback: ‘Somebody With a Little Hammer,’ ‘The Leavers’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Learn about the dark sides of some of the 20th-century’s greats: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and others. NW Books: Why do ravens share food? 2013-03-18T21:34:07Z The play offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of Kerouac and his compatriots as they booze, bet and banter. Kerouac's only play premiers in Mass. hometown 2012-10-10T17:58:08Z I sat in the library that afternoon wondering over Kerouac’s point. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z He and Kerouac traipsed about Manhattan, dropping the Boy Scout knife in a subway grate on 125th Street. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z Kerouac had basked in the heat of spontaneity; he had put Ginsberg on the path to Buddhism; the two had shared their innermost thoughts. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Not only did Kerouac put him in On the Road, Ginsberg also namechecked him in Howl, as his work's "secret hero". Neal Cassady: Drug-taker. Bigamist. Family man 2011-01-16T21:30:00Z Photograph: mjeshenton/guardian.co.uk feanor75's first book of 2013 is The Road in its original form: 'I think if Kerouac had been allowed to publish this without the edit it may not have sold so well. Tips, links and suggestions: Tell us about the books you are reading today 2013-01-08T15:28:03Z Kerouac had remarried, bought a house for his wife and his invalid mother, and moved to Florida, where he lived a semi-reclusive life. “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z It was offered at a Southern California auction house in 2014, then withdrawn after the Cassady and Kerouac estates both claimed ownership. Long-Lost Letter to Jack Kerouac Reaches Its Final Destination 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Celebrating authenticity and adventure, they tucked battered copies of Kerouac and Thoreau into rucksacks, influences that resonate through American culture to this day. Thumbs up for three new books that capture hitchhiking’s adventurous spirit 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The following year, in his novel “The Dharma Bums,” Kerouac called for a “rucksack revolution” of young people searching for Thoreauvian enlightenment in wildness. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z But the album doesn’t strike a dialogue with Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac, who each put a claim on the region. Critic’s Notebook: California Dreaming Adds Sweep to Bill Frisell’s ‘Big Sur’ 2013-06-23T21:08:56Z In the late 1950s, as America welcomed Jack Kerouac’s 120 feet of spontaneous typescript, a different kind of scroll was underway on the West Coast. Unearthing Rick Barton, a Boho Bard of North Beach 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z He quotes sages ranging from Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, to James Brown and Jack Kerouac. When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Like Kerouac and Mr. Jagger, Mr. White had the talent and the ambition to back up his swagger. Marco Pierre White’s ‘White Heat’: A Game-Changer, Revisited 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Wodehouse compared it favorably to Wagner’s “Parsifal”; Jack Kerouac later said it influenced the Beats. The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It seems appropriate that this vast book sarcophagus houses some of Kerouac’s letters. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z In Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel “On the Road,” Sal Paradise visits the track with his friend, who loses all their money. Golden Gate Fields racetrack in Northern California to close this fall 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and the gang doted on the little girl who played Bach for them. Review: An unforgettable performance by SF Symphony reveals Busoni in his full glory 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z “Route 66” was said to have been inspired by Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road,” and it spawned its own hit song, an instrumental composed by Nelson Riddle. George Maharis, star of TV’s ‘Route 66’ in the 1960s, dies at 94 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z It may come as no surprise that Jack Kerouac, the restless prosemaster who wrote “On the Road,” did not like L.A., a city as improvised as he. 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z For Banks, an early gateway to this body of stories was Jack Kerouac, who, like him, was a product of working-class New England; Kerouac’s 1957 breakthrough, “On the Road,” came out when Banks was 17. Appreciation: Russell Banks was a giant rooting for the underdogs 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z And he’s written screenplays as well, including one for an unproduced film version of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” 5 essential Russell Banks novels you should read 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z “I was trying to channel Bruce Springsteen and Jack Kerouac,” Sanders said. How a ’90s country classic took over country radio in 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In the early 1960s, Viking had asked Mr. Lord to get a blurb from Kerouac for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Kesey’s first and best-known novel. Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac was published on this day in 1957. Your Monday Briefing 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z In the early 1960s, Viking had asked Lord to get a blurb from Kerouac for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Kesey’s first and most famous novel. Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z While Kerouac, Osborne and Pulaski are long gone, many fire lookouts are experiencing a similar fate. 93 fire lookout towers remain in WA. Here’s what it’s like working and living in one 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z “You don’t get it. I’m the female Kerouac,” she said, a nod to the author of “On the Road.” She spent decades as a nomad. But her daughter’s pregnancy brought her back to L.A. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Kerouac declined, but Mr. Lord was so impressed by the book that he ended up representing Kesey for his next work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.” Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z By his late teens, Campbell was devouring John Steinbeck’s novels, Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the works of Graham Greene and Albert Camus, even Jean Cocteau. Review | The tale of a dropout who found purpose in books, travel and just living 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Kerouac declined, but Lord was so impressed by the book that he ended up representing Kesey for his next work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.” Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The ghost of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, who spent 63 days there in the summer of 1956. 93 fire lookout towers remain in WA. Here’s what it’s like working and living in one 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Of Kerouac’s sad, sodden later years, he writes: “From the time that Kerouac completed ‘On the Road,’ he was indemnified against ever making — or having made — a serious mistake in his life. What Roger Federer tells us about mortality, according to Geoff Dyer 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Lord attended Kerouac’s funeral, sharing a limousine ride with his client Jimmy Breslin and standing by the grave alongside poet Allen Ginsberg. Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z His shop also displays about 50 models of old typewriters said to have been used by writers such as Jack Kerouac, J.R.R. Welcome to a Village With More Booksellers Than School Pupils 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Lord believed that Kerouac had “a fresh, distinctive voice that should be heard.” Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Then in his mid-30s, Kerouac’s time on Desolation provided inspiration for his books “Desolation Angels” and “Dharma Bums.” 93 fire lookout towers remain in WA. Here’s what it’s like working and living in one 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Dyer begins with riffs on Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac. What Roger Federer tells us about mortality, according to Geoff Dyer 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Lord oversaw Kerouac’s numerous posthumous releases even as he battled the author’s family for control of the estate. Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “Hozomeen, Hozomeen, most beautiful mountain I ever seen,” Jack Kerouac wrote in “Desolation Angels,” the novel describing his time as a fire lookout in the North Cascades. ‘A deep inner meaning’: Seattle returns ancient artifacts to Upper Skagit tribe 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Even younger editors who may have related to Kerouac’s jazzy celebration of youth and personal freedom turned him down. Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Writer Jack Kerouac spent time as a fire lookout at Desolation Peak’s still-accessible panoramic viewpoint near the Canadian border, although a strenuous hike is required. North Cascades Highway: Explore a stretch of Washington’s newest Scenic Byway | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac, trying to clean up from drugs and booze, spent 63 days as a U.S. Seattle’s hip history, from Jackson Street jazz clubs to Sir Mix-A-Lot … and even Lake Union houseboats 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Kerouac had completed a conventional novel, “The Town and the City,” but he had no agent and surely needed one for his next book. Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Of course, the headline itself pays tribute to another counterculture journalism icon, Jack Kerouac. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: When it comes to tennis, as with other things, women exist, too 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z One editor wrote to Lord that “Kerouac does have enormous talent of a very special kind. But this is not a well-made novel, nor a saleable one nor even, I think, a good one.” Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z He read works by French symbolist poets like Arthur Rimbaud and American beat writers like Jack Kerouac. Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z “I mean, he’s not far off from a Jack Kerouac or a Jack London or a Hemingway or other frustrating American males,” Theroux says. Justin Theroux knows his 'Mosquito Coast' character will be polarizing. He loves that. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In “On The Road,” Mr. Lord believed that Kerouac had “a fresh, distinctive voice that should be heard.” Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Together they embraced a Jack Kerouac lifestyle: boundless, free-spirited, going where the road took them — most often in the direction of the beach. Juliette Paskowitz, matriarch of the 'first family of surfing,' dies at 89 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z By 1955, Kerouac was ready to give up — but Lord was not. Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “My main goal at the time was to escape Long Island, travel the United States in the style of Kerouac, write like Hemingway and live the songs of Paul Simon,” Larry wrote. Perspective | My week of second-guessing continues with the choices we make about jobs 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Located in San Francisco’s Italian-influenced North Beach neighborhood, City Lights quickly became the hangout of choice for the city’s radical intelligentsia, particularly Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and the rest of the Beats. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z One editor wrote to Mr. Lord: “Kerouac does have enormous talent of a very special kind. But this is not a well-made novel, nor a salable one nor even, I think, a good one.” Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Ginsberg’s rhythmic reading — punctuated by Kerouac’s shouts of “Go! Go! Go!” — mesmerized the audience. Lawrence Ferlinghetti—the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller—has died 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z But Kerouac was a shy and fragile man, Lord wrote. Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Kerouac moved to St. Petersburg in 1964 with his third wife, Stella, and his mother. Kerouac House has a new owner who will preserve its history 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z The human genome specifying the blueprint for our design — a sequence of 3 billion or so chemical bases — accommodates the bohemian ideology of Kerouac’s Beat Generation as effortlessly as the ruthless culture of the Aztecs. Review | With CRISPR, humans can create their own evolutionary future 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z By 1955, Kerouac was ready to give up — but Mr. Lord was not. Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Kerouac died in 1969 at 47, while Ginsberg and novelist William S. Burroughs died in 1997 at 70 and 83, respectively. Lawrence Ferlinghetti—the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller—has died 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Lord even recruited a doctor who unsuccessfully attempted to get Kerouac to clean up, but the businessman eventually backed away since he was his “literary agent, not his life agent.” Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Kerouac was 47 when he died from liver cirrhosis on Oct. Kerouac House has a new owner who will preserve its history 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z I had the urge to break out of that world of mine and do the all-American thing, the Jack Kerouac thing: go "on the road." We've been on Donald Trump's road for a long, long time 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z But Kerouac was a shy and fragile man, Mr. Lord wrote. Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z One time, poet Gregory Corso, a cohort of Ginsberg and Kerouac, broke in and stole money from the cash register. Lawrence Ferlinghetti—the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller—has died 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Lord attended Kerouac’s funeral, sharing a limousine ride with his client Jimmy Breslin and standing by the grave alongside Allen Ginsberg, “the sunlight filtering through the trees, the leaves brown after losing their fall colors.” Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z A local nonprofit wanted to purchase it from the Kerouac Estate but could not come up with the funding. Kerouac House has a new owner who will preserve its history 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z I was asked in an interview if I preferred Baldwin or Kerouac. Carlo Rovelli: 'I remember my amazement at finding a whole cosmos inside a book' 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Lord even recruited a doctor who unsuccessfully attempted to get Kerouac to clean up, but the businessman eventually backed away since he was his “literary agent, not his life agent.” Sterling Lord, literary agent who shepherded ‘On the Road,’ dies at 102 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Curious, Ginsberg and author Jack Kerouac drove to New York to meet her, impressed by her verse and her spunk. Diane di Prima, feminist poet and Beat generation force, dies at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Lord oversaw Kerouac’s numerous posthumous releases even as he battled the author’s family for control of the estate. Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Over the years, Kerouac fans have broken into the house to celebrate the author. Kerouac House has a new owner who will preserve its history 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Hawke grounds Kerouac’s deceptively effortless stream-of-consciousness flights with vivid grit and a contagious sense of wonder, grasping and conveying what made the Beats so beatific. Masterful audiobook narrations by 5 actors and actresses, from Marisa Tomei to Benedict Cumberbatch 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In “On the Road,” his 1950s almanac of traversing the United States, Jack Kerouac described the dormitories as “the only community in America where whites and Negroes lived together voluntarily.” Coronavirus batters finances of African American healthcare centers in the Bay Area 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z When she left a cocktail party early one evening to look after her daughter, she said Kerouac mocked her by screaming, “Unless you forget about your babysitter, you’re never going to be a writer.” Diane di Prima, feminist poet and Beat generation force, dies at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z He was never, however, a “confessional” novelist like Kerouac, unwilling to range beyond his own immediate experience. A great Hollywood novelist, nearly lost and rediscovered 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But the new owner’s plan for the house where Kerouac lived from 1965 until he died in 1969 is still undecided - other than to preserve and make it accessible to the public. Kerouac House has a new owner who will preserve its history 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z I suggest to Connor that if Love had been a bloke with handfuls of drugs, bowling through life all mouthy and opinionated, then she’d have been treated like some hero from a Kerouac novel. Courtney Love in Liverpool: the Scousers who taught the grunge icon how to rock 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Less than two years later, Kerouac published his seminal Beat generation novel, “On the Road.” Michael McClure, poet who helped define Beat generation, dies at 87 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In 1986, he co-directed the documentary “What Happened to Kerouac?” which explored the life and times of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. Lewis MacAdams, famed crusader for the Los Angeles River, dies at 75. 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The store and its publishing arm were essential in the careers of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other Beat writers and City Lights remains a favorite meeting place for progressive artists and thinkers. City Lights Bookstore launches successful GoFundMe campaign 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z “They had good ideas on how to use the house so the community could celebrate Jack Kerouac,” Burchenal said. Kerouac House has a new owner who will preserve its history 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z The “Jack Kerouac of Norway”, he was from a wealthy family, part of a fast set who raced sailing boats, threw outrageous parties, drove open top cars. Bohemian tragedy: Leonard Cohen and the curse of Hydra 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z In early September 1957, Jack Kerouac achieved the dream of every writer. Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The following year, it was finally published in the US, with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Farewell, Robert Frank, a true American revolutionary | Kenan Malik 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Fittingly, Kerouac wrote the introduction to Frank’s book, in which he noted that Frank had “sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film.” How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Such designation might require that the structure’s exterior looks how it did when Kerouac resided there. Kerouac House has a new owner who will preserve its history 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z “The Americans” was often considered a visual complement to Jack Kerouac’s classic Beat Generation novel from 1957, “On the Road.” Robert Frank, influential photographer who captured ‘The Americans,’ dies at 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z That breakthrough review, written by Gilbert Millstein in the “Books of the Times” column, changed the course of literary history and the career of Kerouac, who died 50 years ago this fall, on Oct. Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z “With one hand,” Kerouac observed, “he sucked a sad poem right out of America on to film.” Farewell, Robert Frank, a true American revolutionary | Kenan Malik 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Kerouac saw sadness in Frank’s collection, but what is most notable about the staid, unburnished faces now is their comparative sanguinity. How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z A year later, Grove Press came out with “The Americans,” a U.S. edition that had an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Influential photographer Robert Frank dead at 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Kerouac fashioned a memorable introduction to “The Americans,” writing, “With one hand he sucked a sad poem of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.’ Robert Frank, influential photographer who captured ‘The Americans,’ dies at 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Millstein’s prose was as elegant and profound as Kerouac’s — his insights defined an era. Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z “Here” is not Americana folklore, Jack Kerouac, and the Summer of Love coming home to roost. America's lost street kids: the scapegoating of troubled youths 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z When Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” appeared, a year before “The Americans,” the idea of driving across the country still carried a frisson of audacity and adventure. How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Get a selfie by the giant neon Jack Kerouac quote, “The prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.” You’re going where? Des Moines 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Despite Kerouac’s introductory praise, the book was not well received at first and was out of print within a year. Robert Frank, influential photographer who captured ‘The Americans,’ dies at 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Years later Millstein recalled that he “wasn’t looking for Kerouac’s novel beforehand. I didn’t even know it was coming out.” Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Clarence Lake found inspiration in Jack Kerouac and the Beats and wanted to move to California to study art. How Charles Manson cast his spell on honor students, dropouts and homecoming queens 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Even Trump, with his notion of “American carnage,” can be understood as an inheritor of Kerouac. Perspective | In Trump’s vision of a white America, immigrants should be grateful and servile 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z It was published in 1957 and reportedly outsold Jack Kerouac’s beat classic, “On the Road,” which was released the same year. The surf classic ‘Gidget’ is 60 this year, and it remains the ‘absolute ultimate’ 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z In 1944, in New York, a decade before Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs would publish their countercultural works, there was a killer in their midst. The End of the Gay-Panic Legal Defense 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Rifling through the paper, they found on Page 27 an expected review of Kerouac’s new book, “On the Road.” Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z New York photographer Fred W McDarrah was a photographer for the Village Voice, and is known for capturing Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan through the 1970s. The best US exhibitions celebrating Stonewall at 50 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The book that is most overrated On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Tommy Orange: ‘Maybe Jack Kerouac made more sense for a different generation’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Some readers compared his writing to Kerouac’s, some to Steinbeck’s. Can Beto Bounce Back? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z “Buttermilk Graffiti” is thus a nicely old-fashioned book for this short-attention-span, visually dependent era: your chef as Kerouac, driving across the country and scribbling down notes on kitchen tables and restaurant counters. Chef Edward Lee’s ‘Buttermilk Graffiti’ explores America's diverse foodways 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z If not for that review, Kerouac might have remained a minor writer and the Beat Generation so fully associated with his name may never have flourished as it did. Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Kinder was an early admirer of Jack Kerouac and other Beat writers of the 1950s and studied English at West Virginia University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1967 and a master’s degree in 1968. Chuck Kinder, writer and teacher who inspired Michael Chabon’s ‘Wonder Boys,’ dies at 76 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Road Read: OK, if you must read Kerouac, then take along “Big Sur.” Lit Trips: Cruise around Big Sur for these literary adventures along the coast 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z It has been speculated over the years he may very well be Jack Kerouac. Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z He started infrequently writing about the people he met and places he traveled along the campaign trail in a lyrical, 20th century voice likened to that of Jack Kerouac or even Karl Ove Knausgård. Twitter shuts down Beto O’Rourke parody account 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z After all, seven years earlier, Kerouac had published his first book, “The Town and the City,” to modest reviews, which were not enough to propel him to fame. Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z New book out: “Dear Los Angeles,” a look at the city through the centuries, as glimpsed by Kerouac, De Beauvoir, Waugh and others. Essential California: What will the migrants in Tijuana do next? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Lin also reminds me of Jack Kerouac, who in On the Road and Dharma Bums desperately chases epiphanies in an effort to escape his tormented self. Oneness, Weirdness and Alienation 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z It was at this time that Kerouac was researching the underground jazz scene for a book that would later become “The Subterraneans.” Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Kerouac ended up working as a security guard on a construction site. Jack Kerouac letter to mother recounts ‘On the Road’ adventures 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z While the more bookish culture and narrower media landscape of the 1950s played its part in catapulting Kerouac to success, serendipity also had a role. Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The joys of “just going” that the Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac waxed lyrical about in the 1957 classic “On the Road” were very rarely available to black travelers, regardless of income level. Opinion | Summer Road-Tripping While Black 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z “In the real world, the woman with a graduate degree who knows your favorite Kerouac passage, speaks a few languages or discovers new ways to cure disease might be undeniably attractive,” she said. For Online Daters, Women Peak at 18 While Men Peak at 50, Study Finds. Oy. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z A proposed plea agreement says Kerouac would serve 25 years in prison. Woman pleads guilty to producing child pornography 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z This tension within Buddhism was dramatized in Jack Kerouac’s autobiographical novel The Dharma Bums, published in 1958. Buddhism, the Good and the Bad 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z There is, otherwise, no similarity between the two: technically and philosophically, Hemingway and Kerouac are, at the very least, a depression and a world war apart.” Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool, rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac. 'Crazy Rich Asians': Kevin Kwan turned family ties into a juicy bestseller 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z If the door was to Jack Kerouac’s room, $37,500. Rescued From Obscurity: How Discarded Items Become Treasures 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Jack Kerouac wrote his classic book On the Road while staying there in the 1950s. Bob Dylan hotel door sells for $100,000 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Smith/Kerouac: Japhy, do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Buddhism, the Good and the Bad 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z In the piece, he probed the depths of Kerouac the writer and explored the breadth of “On the Road.” Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Jack Kerouac His lovely ripe pectorals were barely concealed beneath his white nightshirt, and Dean looked at me as if to say, if this is America, I’d like to see more of it. Opinion | If male authors described men in literature the way they describe women 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z “He is very much in the spirit of Jack Kerouac, of Hunter Thompson,” he adds. How 'brown buffalo' Oscar Acosta, best known as Hunter Thompson's Dr. Gonzo, inspired his own TV doc 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The 71-year-old, Chicago-born writer was drawn to the Beats because Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs were educated people who celebrated their influences. Barry Gifford's lifetime of outsiders 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Smith/Kerouac: But he emanated the sentient beings and their ignorance too. Buddhism, the Good and the Bad 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z There was the Eighth Street Bookshop, a favorite of the Beat writers and poets, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Hoping to Honor Hendrix on the Street Where He Once Lived 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z There was the Eighth Street Bookshop, a favorite of the Beat writers and poets, such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Hoping to Honor Hendrix on the Street Where He Once Lived 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z But if Acosta channels Kerouac or Thompson in his style, in his ideas, he is resolutely his own man — his search for self delved into the complexities of race and indigenist themes. How 'brown buffalo' Oscar Acosta, best known as Hunter Thompson's Dr. Gonzo, inspired his own TV doc 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z A year later, Grove Press published the book as “The Americans,” with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Robert Delpire, Champion of Photography as Art, Dies at 91 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Two years after publishing his beat-generation classic On the Road in 1957, Kerouac penned a short prequel for Playboy titled Before the Road. 11 great authors who wrote for Playboy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Playboy also ran the work of distinguished fiction writers, including Jack Kerouac and Norman Mailer. Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder, dies at 91 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z And even a place as venerable as the Blue Moon, where Beat legend Jack Kerouac allegedly drank, isn’t protected as a landmark by the city. Seattle live-music clubs feel the burn from red-hot real-estate market 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z As TIME's then explained, the plot was an opportunity for Kerouac to expound upon a new set of moral guidelines for young Americans: Read TIME's Original 1957 Review of 'On the Road' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Since its first U.S. publication in 1962, it has become a cult favorite and has been compared favorably to Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” as a restless portrait of 1950s America. Clancy Sigal, radical, agent and writer whose ‘sin is enthusiasm,’ dies at 90 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z In the eyes of some readers, it became the more sober counterweight to “On The Road,” Jack Kerouac’s defining road trip into postwar America. Clancy Sigal, novelist who wrote 'Going Away' after being blacklisted in Hollywood, dies at 91 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Framed photos of Alec Guinness, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris hang on the wall next to a picture of Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard and Allen Ginsberg gathered at Kerouac’s grave. Ethan Hawke lets us in his editing room and reveals what Philip Seymour Hoffman taught him 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Kerouac is running for first selectman in Brooklyn, a town with a population of about 8,200 in the rural northeastern area of the state known as the Quiet Corner. Jack Kerouac relative seeks political office in Connecticut 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z That's also part of the reason why, 60 years later, the book remains an iconic moment in American literature — even despite the later revelation that Kerouac himself did not drive. Read TIME's Original 1957 Review of 'On the Road' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z At Gunther’s Tap Room, which was gutted by fire, Jack Kerouac was known as a barfly, not the king of the Beats. Cornell’s Climate-Conscious Urban Campus Arises 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Some of his friends in town fondly recall how Kerouac, who died at age 47 in 1969, would join pickup softball games, tell colorful stories and walk around the village, sometimes in his bare feet. Owners Vow to Rebuild Long Island Bar Frequented by Kerouac 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Like a cult favorite from the 1950s, Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the book’s path to the best-seller list was long and unlikely. ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ author dead 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Jack Kerouac was from Lowell, Massachusetts, about 65 miles away. Jack Kerouac relative seeks political office in Connecticut 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z "With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean," the reviewer noted. Read TIME's Original 1957 Review of 'On the Road' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Autumn in the North Cascades National Park and soggy clouds cling to the peaks of the mountains that inspired the musings of Beat poets such as Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg 60 years ago. Call of the wild: can America’s national parks survive? | Lucy Rock 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z As they see it, the tavern would not look all that different from when Kerouac would take a seat at the bar with rolls of nickels to buy a few beers. Owners Vow to Rebuild Long Island Bar Frequented by Kerouac 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Though the premise of their project may strike some as absurd — does a first grader really need to be introduced to Kerouac or Capote? — kiddie lit has become a surprisingly lucrative and crowded niche. Forget ‘Pat the Bunny.’ My Child Is Reading Hemingway. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Though the premise of their project may strike some as absurd — does a first-grader really need to be introduced to Kerouac or Capote? — kiddie lit has become a surprisingly lucrative and crowded niche. Kiddie-lit publishers try to bring adult classics down to 6-year-old level 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z As for the home run, it continued to soar — written about by everyone from Steinbeck to Kerouac to DeLillo, christened by The Sporting News as baseball’s greatest moment, honored on a stamp. ‘Why Me?’ Echoes Through Ralph Branca’s World, Beyond a Doomed Pitch 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Weisberg, also a poet, was drawn to the Cascades after reading Kerouac at high school in Ohio. Call of the wild: can America’s national parks survive? | Lucy Rock 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Maddon meditates, laughs at himself, digs beatnik jive and many days offers a reasonable and entertaining facsimile of Jack Kerouac in cleats. Twitchy, Sweaty, but Triumphant: Cubs Go Home as Winners at Last 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Salinger was among a crowd of postwar writers whom Leslie Fiedler called Teenage Impersonators, along with Mailer, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. The Film J. D. Salinger Nearly Made 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z You can hike up to Kerouac’s lookout tower on Desolation, but the trip requires a steep and grueling hike into the backcountry. Literary landscapes: A book-filled journey through Whatcom County 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In the early 1960s, as a young man, Dylan was influenced by the Beat Generation and was inspired by the work of Jack Kerouac. What to Know About Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z She thought she already had: Axel Jensen, a novelist from home, who wrote in the tradition of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z A chunk of shelf is devoted to Jack Kerouac, whose character Marylou she played in a film version of “On the Road.” Kristen Stewart, the Good Bad Girl 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The main character, Jimbo Stark, fancies himself as equal parts James Dean and Jack Kerouac. Publisher gives Kinder’s ‘Ghost’ another chance 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The Beat poet Jack Kerouac traveled east on this road in 1956 on his way to a job as a summer fire lookout on the North Cascades’ Desolation Peak. Literary landscapes: A book-filled journey through Whatcom County 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z They’re more like the people who, hearing of the louche adventures of Jack Kerouac and the other beats, moved to New York to try to emulate their lives. The death of bohemia: can the dream survive in gentrified New York? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The bohemian writings of Jack Kerouac show the modern meaning taking shape. The Vocabularist: How 'cop-out' became a posh phrase - BBC News 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The celebration starts at 10 a.m. with a walking tour of Lowell sites connected to Kerouac. Jack Kerouac’s birthday to be celebrated in his hometown 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z When you read Kerouac now, it still does. Word of the year candidate 'gig' reflects a new economic order 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z During a 1959 television appearance, Jack Kerouac was asked how long it took him to write his novel On The Road. Pay Attention! New "Brain Fingerprints" Predict Your Ability to Focus 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z He worked as an actor in London in the 1960s before returning to the U.S., where he began recording highly acclaimed albums for the Muse label including tributes to Jack Kerouac and Nat King Cole. Legendary jazz vocalist Mark Murphy dies in New Jersey at 83 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z "Kerouac Retrieved," an exhibition of the clutter that surrounded Kerouac at the simple wooden desk in Florida where he wrote many of his works, opens Thursday in the author's hometown of Lowell. Kerouac's personal effects go on the road to new exhibition in author's Massachusetts hometown 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It begins at the Kerouac Commemorative at Kerouac Park and ends at the Pollard Memorial Library. Jack Kerouac’s birthday to be celebrated in his hometown 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The earliest example I've found is from a 1952 piece by Jack Kerouac, talking about his gig as a part-time brakeman for the Southern Pacific railroad in San Jose. Word of the year candidate 'gig' reflects a new economic order 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Like the Kerouac of legend, some people possess the incredible ability to focus for long periods of time. Pay Attention! New "Brain Fingerprints" Predict Your Ability to Focus 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z “These things give us a sense of who Kerouac was,” said Tietchen. Kerouac’s knickknacks go on the road to author’s hometown 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z As Tietchen puts it: "Kerouac is to Lowell what Emerson is to Concord." Kerouac's personal effects go on the road to new exhibition in author's Massachusetts hometown 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The nonprofit Lowell Celebrates Kerouac organized the celebration. Jack Kerouac’s birthday to be celebrated in his hometown 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z In the fifties the writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg promoted an alternative lifestyle outside the middle-class “rat race.” How Hippies Created Today's American Culture 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z There’s the Chicago bookstore with a cat and a mechanical elevator, and the Albuquerque shop where lawyers and the homeless search together for Jack Kerouac’s novels. Used bookstores help tell stories along historic Route 66 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z As Tietchen puts it: “Kerouac is to Lowell what Emerson is to Concord.” Kerouac’s knickknacks go on the road to author’s hometown 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Today's hipsters are discovering Kerouac — not just because he favored plaid flannel shirts and Levis, but for his freewheeling, freethinking prose and his pursuit of what Tietchen calls "a principled state of marginality." Kerouac's personal effects go on the road to new exhibition in author's Massachusetts hometown 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z If Day is a figure out of Hugo, Merton is out of Kerouac. The Pope’s Favorite American Radicals 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, all Jack Kerouac had to do was get in a car and go. Women on road trips aren't tragedies waiting to happen. Like men, we're free | Glynnis MacNicol 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z On another occasion, she said, Kerouac and a friend were at an upscale bar in the Tampa Bay area dressed like “bums” and very drunk. Man of letters: Fans leave notes at Kerouac’s former home 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z “Kerouac Retrieved,” an exhibition of the clutter that surrounded Kerouac at the simple wooden desk in Florida where he wrote many of his works, opens Thursday in the author’s hometown of Lowell. Kerouac’s knickknacks go on the road to author’s hometown 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z |
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