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3 days ago · Hardcover, 318 pages. $34.95. “Becoming Kerouac” more deeply explores the writer’s life from 1949, when Kerouac left his home in Lowell, Massachusetts, through 1957, just before his life ...
2 days ago · 8 places to follow in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The iconic novel and founding text of the Beat Generation, On the Road, by American author Jack Kerouac, was a fundamental text for his generation and continues to inspire artists – and readers – today. Let’s take a closer look at the key places visited by the book’s ...
1 day ago · Renowned critic Martin Williams, in his role as head of jazz programming at the Smithsonian Institution, curated a multi-LP set called The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz (1973), which drew on his book The Jazz Tradition (1970) to present a canon of classic jazz recordings from Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Armstrong, and Ellington down to John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.
5 days ago · Other people — not so much. However, it is for these reasons that names such as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti are immortalized in history.
1 day ago · Reading From "The Dharma Bums", By Jack Kerouac by Charles Laughton, released 16 July 2024
5 days ago · It’s the summer of ‘47 and Jack Kerouac is shivering on the side of the road. “My shoes, damn fool that I am, were Mexican huaraches, plant-like sieves not fit for the rainy night of America and the raw road night,” his semi-autobiographical narrator Sal Paradise remembers in On the Road.
5 days ago · Based on Bill Morgan’s book Beat Generation in New York: a Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac’s City and New York University’s printable walking tour, we’ve put together a list of the best ...
