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• Photo

  
  a brainless thinker — Authority: 620
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  3 days ago

• This Poem Is for Deer: Gary Snyder Reading at Morrison

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 508
  Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, a Berkeley legend was born: beat poet Gary Snyder. This man is so much more than Jack Kerouac’s zen sidekick in Dharma Bums. He is a sailor. He is a logger. He is a former Berkeley grad student in the Oriental languages department. He’s got a mind like compost. ...
  3 days ago

• We Got The Beat

  
  Smile for Camera — Authority: 132
  By Jon Bergquist As it turns out, Orlando was the birthplace of a very significant piece of literary Americana. Jack Kerouac, one of the founding fathers of the Beat Generation (beatniks) and major source of inspiration to Hunter S. Thompson, wrote the novel The Dharma Bums in small house in College Park, ...
  3 days ago

• book club selection 1: on the road by jack kerouac

  
  Free People Clothing Boutique Blog — Authority: 483
  good morning everyone…i am so excited to announce about the launch of the book club! we have chosen on the road by jack kerouac as the first book featured in the free people book club! this is one of my favorite books of all time, and I can’t wait to hear what you all have to say about it.since we’re new at ...
  3 days ago

• ( on ) the road

  
  Milano Fixed — Authority: 511
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  5 days ago

• One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur x Field Notes Giveaway

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 140
  October 21st was the 40th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s death. Few did it like that man…he was a hero and about as real as you can get. As we posted last month , Benjamin Gibbard ( Death Cab for Cutie ) and Jay Farrar ( Son Volt ) got together and recorded the album One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s ...
  6 days ago

• Fenton Traces Kerouac’s Trail by Connor Adams Sheets - YourNabe.com

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 436
  Read original... Pat Fenton began to chase the ghost of Jack Kerouac across Queens in 1986. From Ozone Park to Richmond Hill and the Van Wyck Expressway to Phil Rizzuto Park, he has followed the beloved writer’s footsteps throughout the borough the so-called father of the Beatgeneration inhabited for 12 ...
  1 week ago

• "How Do I Explain That My Coworkers A Raving Lunatic?" [Ask Dorothy Parker]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  Oh dear. Theres a very troubling letter in todays Financial Times by a distraught citizen with a dodgy coworker. Really, there was nothing to do but get the opinions of a bunch of dead people, without delay. My colleagues and I are convinced that one of our co-workers is insane. The details are bizarre and too ...
  1 week ago

• The Bearded Truth | Oh Captain, My Captain

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 500
  I’m back. And married. Sorry for the lapse in genius. But, let’s be honest, that started a long time ago. I keep writing anyway. Which is the point of today’s post — writing. November means a few things; namely that I get to sleep in an extra hour on Sundays before football starts (I’m abolishing daylight ...
  1 week ago

• Book News: Sequels, Lesbians, T.S. Eliot’s Post-Wasteland Exhaustion and the Battle for Jack Kerouac’s Estate

  
  Book Case — Authority: 418
  With sequels to everything from Noddy, Winnie the Pooh, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and now a planned series of new Isaac Asimov novel’s it’s become the thankless task of a bunch of authors to keep the dead alive. A difficult job as Paul Bignell and Andrew Johnson argue in a recent article for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 128
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
  2 weeks ago

• Everything Computer

  
  ::the open end:: — Authority: 134
  I have this file I keep handy in my Documents folder. It started out as a way to organize my passwords. But now, after months of accretion, Everything Computer .txt is not only a place where I keep my passwords organized, but also my home address, sample html, simple scripts I sometimes run, prose, words and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Take a ride… the sounds of Kerouac, Cohen & Bon Iver

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 128
  As the clouds roll in and the humidity continues to rise, dip your toes into the sounds of these new folk sounds. Take a ride to the rugged coast of Kerouac’s Big Sur with the Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard; be mesmerised by the messianic tones of Cohen as he tames the crowd at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Procrastination: UK Link Love

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 568
  Kirsty McHugh By the time that you read this, fair readers, I will be on my way home to Glasgow for the weekend to see my mum. I’m very excited. However, for those of you stuck at your desks, allow me to entertain you with some of my favourite recent blog posts and articles. Sad news for the BBC Radio 4 ...
  2 weeks ago

• On the road again

  
  Creative Is Not A Department — Authority: 485
  Cover of On The Road I have had Jack Kerouac ’s On The Road given to me a gift to keep at least three times. I imagine some combination of traits my friends spotted in me (wannabe-philosopher mixed with restless-and-easily-distracted) focused their attention on this book. When people visit, they remark on ...
  2 weeks ago

• The battle for Jack Kerouacs estate

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The daughter that Jack Kerouac disowned and an apparently forged will ignite the dispute over ownership of his estate.
  2 weeks ago

• monday quote

  
  Free People Clothing Boutique Blog — Authority: 483
  "the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…"- jack kerouac have a ...
  3 weeks ago

• End State

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 752
  California is a mess, but I love it all the same--especially the Bay Area, where I lived for 15 years. I went to Berkeley in 1962--a refugee from Amherst College, which at that time was dominated by frat boys with high SAT scores. I didnt go to Berkeley to go to school, but to be a bus ride away from North Beach ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard – One Fast Move Or I’m Gone

  
  cornershopstudios — Authority: 147
  Death Cab Cutie’s Ben Gibbard wanders off again, but this time to put together One Fast Move Or I’m Gone with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar, based on the words of Beat Generation’s Jack Kerouac. “They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who ...
  3 weeks ago

• Matters of Fact

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 752
  In the mid-1950s, a photographer named Robert Frank, lately emigrated from Switzerland, drove around the United States to see and to join his new country. He shot pictures. The results, or his choices among them, were published in a book of eighty-three photos called The Americans , which was an immediate and ...
  3 weeks ago

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