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• When I was told that two days after returning from India we would be taking a family road trip to Wisconsin,

  
  http://ohrohin.com — Authority: 149
  I nearly had a meltdown. It’s an eight hour drive from MI to WI. To make matters worse, we...
  6 days ago

• On the Road with Kerouac

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 128
  As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin’ man,I have chalked up many a mile.Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks,And I’ve learned much from both of their styles.Jimmy BuffettSon of a Son of a SailorThough Jack Kerouac had been dead 25 years the year I graduated from college I still took him on [...]
  1 week ago

• Bibliokleptomaniacs Dig God… and Beatniks

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 700
  Bookworms are an interesting sort. Some (bibliophiles) compulsively hoard literary nuggets until their shelves sag and creak, yet never bother to actually read their collection. Others can barely tear themselves away from the freshly-vacuumed bookstore corner in which they devour the newest Malcolm Gladwell for fear ...
  1 week ago

• Jack Kerouac in Orlando

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 128
  “Someone handed me Mexico City Blues (written by Jack Kerouac) in St. Paul in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.”Bob Dylan“If you’re working with words, it’s got to be poetry. I grew up with Kerouac. If he hadn’t wrote On The Road, the Doors would [...]
  1 week ago

• The Organizing Gene

  
  Barbara Shoup — Authority: 111
  I have a weird, blissful, very vivid memory of myself at, maybe eight years old, “organizing” the Christmas cards that my mom had addressed and put in a shoebox to await mailing. Was I alphabetizing them? I have no idea whether I knew how to do that yet. The memory is all about the niftiness of the shoebox, so ...
  1 week ago

• On the Road

  
  Travel Tips — Authority: 136
  It the 1950s, when car travel was pretty much the norm, a real mystic developed about taking car trips for vacation. It was during that time, when the interstate highway systems were being developed in America, that the famous Route…
  1 week ago

• The Great Wednesday Compare #5- Jack Kerouac VERSUS Allen Ginsberg

  
  The Book Mine Set — Authority: 115
  The final winner of last weeks Great Wednesday Compare (Miriam Toews Vs Jack Keruoac, with a final score of 5-4 was Jack Kerouac!Well, a tie-breaker came my way last week and once again, that means that I get to cast the deciding vote. I have to say, it wasnt an easy decision. Quite frankly, Ive only read one book by ...
  1 week ago

• Poetry Train Monday - 131 - He Would Find Me in Testament, Virginia

  
  A Piece of My Mind — Authority: 121
  Heading towards Christmas - woo hoo! 10 days till Christmas Eve!! - heres my found poem which Ive reworked from a passage by Jack Kerouac . Im currently reading On the Road for the Dewey Reading Challenge. He Would Find Me in Testament, Virginia At Christmas 1948 My aunt and I Went ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colum McCann Interview

  
  Buzzine — Authority: 438
  By: Roslyn Bernstein At the 2009 National Book Awards Ceremony in November, Colum McCann, the author of five novels and two collections of short stories, won the prize for fiction for his new novel, Let the Great World Spin. The citation read: “Like the funambulist at the heart of this extraordinary novel, ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Purported" 3d DCA Watch -- Guy Bailey Jr., Leo Greenfield And Jack Kerouac Edition

  
  South Florida Lawyers — Authority: 435
  Hi kids! Everything is the same, the fog says We are fog and we fly by dissolving like ephemera, and the leaves say We are leaves and we jiggle in the wind, thats all, we come and go, grow and fall — Even the paper bags in my garbage pit say We are mantransformed paper bags made out of wood pulp, we are kinda proud ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Great Wednesday Compare #5- Miriam Toews VERSUS Jack Kerouac

  
  The Book Mine Set — Authority: 115
  The final winner of last weeks Great Wednesday Compare (Miriam Toews Vs Marjane Satrapi, with a final score of 4-3 was Miriam Toews!Looks like our first female graphic novelist in the Great Wednesday Compares didnt fare too well. Close, but alas, no cigar. Ive only read the first Persepolis, but I must say I really ...
  2 weeks ago

• Seasons Greetings.

  
  Drunkinarowboat's Weblog — Authority: 91
  I am currently reading Lorrie Moore’s collection of short stories “Birds of America.” I suppose I am a little late to the Lorrie Moore party, but I haven’t felt this excited about a book in a long time. I feel like a little kid, looking forward to reading a story a night on my air mattress. I giggle getting ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ayn Rand -- back from the dead and still dead wrong

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Banks , Recession , Recession Diaries "Shes back!" screams the cover of Reason , the magazine "For Free Minds and Free Markets," featuring a photo of right-wing icon Ayn Rand looking suspiciously like the Bride of Frankenstein. (Seriously. Did you ever see the two of them together? I didnt think ...
  3 weeks ago

• Review of “Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America”

  
  Travel Blissful — Authority: 126
  The cover shows Pulpit Rock in Utahs Echo Canyon, in a photochrom by William Henry Jackson. The strong economy by the end of the 19 th century, when North America was fully settled, led to affordable popular tourism. Not only wealthy people had the means to travel. Also the less well-off set out to discover the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs

  
  The Year Zero — Authority: 124
  (via livejournal.com/vintagephoto/ stream) Jack Kerouac (right) looks a bit like he who is was beyond the scope of this blog, in this photo. Posted in photography Tagged: america, beat generation, beatnic, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs
  3 weeks ago

• Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur

  
  Stupid and Contagious — Authority: 458
  Ive been luxuriating this week in a real nice new collection of Americana from the always excellent Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard, in the form of a Kerouac movie soundtrack Based on Jacks famous novel "Big Sur" - a lyrical tome I devoured during my Kerouac phase way back in the day (man, it sure tasted good!) - the ...
  3 weeks ago

• On the first day of December...

  
  Fragments — Authority: 91
  We made this!! Okay, it wasnt the first it was the 29th, but Luka and I made this fabulous house together, and it tastes great too. The hands are holding it in place as at the time the roof was sagging and neither the toffee or the royal icing were doing their job. For a moment there we thought wed have to resort to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do typewriters hold the keys to fine writing?

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 129
  In the age of the PC, a surprising number of authors remain wedded to rather older technology After five decades and 5m words, Cormac McCarthy is parting company with the faithful typewriter he bought in a Tennessee pawn shop for $50 . Despite his decision to auction his elderly Olivetti – offers around the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Video lecture from Wales, and other Rolf news

  
  Vagablogging :: Rolf Potts Vagabonding Blog — Authority: 432
  Back in September I traveled to rural Wales for the excellent DO Lectures series, which features talks and presentations by cutting-edge experts from a wide variety of disciplines — from mountaineers to sustainable architects to graphic designers. I spoke on vagabonding and the ethic of long-term travel, and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Photo

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 716
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