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• Book Review: Mania

  
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  The Beat Generation of the 1950s was part of an extremely controversial cultural phenomenon that continues to influence us to this day. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and other members of this counterculture are still the subject of numerous works. Just last year, at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, ...
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• Kerouac Tours by LCK! in May

  
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  Kerouac Park tour group; web photo courtesy of marieharris.com Kerouac birthplace tour group; web photo courtesy of richardhowe.com JACK KEROUAC’S LOWELL TOUR SERIES KICKS OFF ON MAY 4 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! experts on great American writer Jack Kerouac’s youth in Lowell and his Lowell novels will ...
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• Jack Kerouac & The Other Middle-Aged Woman

  
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  I’m in an elevator in a bookstore with a middle-aged woman who’s carrying a Nora Roberts book, a student in a ‘clones T-shirt and pajama pants who’s looking at his phone, and a tall blond man in a tight herringbone sportscoat over tight faded jeans who is reading Jack Kerouac’s On the Road . I wonder if he ...
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• Queen’s Park Savannah, Trinidad

  
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  I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved. — Jack Kerouac, 1922–1969 Please visit View from the Pier to view the photo that accompanies this post.
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• Monday Beau

  
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  Garrett Hedlund fucking Steve Buscemi in the movie adaptation of Jack Kerouacs On the Road. Kristen Stewart notwithstanding, I may have to go see this.
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• Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

  
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  In 2005, Thunder’s Mouth Press published my collection of interviews with Jack Kerouac. It was titled Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . Not long afterwards, the famed publishing house was bought out by DaCapo Press and the book was out a few years later. To fund the documentary I have ...
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• Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”

  
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  Here is an addendum to a previous article written for Empty Mirror. Herewith I will describe the contents of the “lost” letter in both the U.K. and U.S. trade editions of The Sea is My Brother so that you may fill in a hole in the narrative of the book. As I read through the Viking (U.K.) edition of  The ...
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• The story of a man who nearly became a lumberjack - the necessaryfictions by which we live

  
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  Copperas Woods READINGS: John 14:1-14 - I am the way, the truth, the life A Walk by Gary Snyder Sunday the only day we dont work: Mules farting around the meadow,                             Murphy fishing, The tent flaps in the warm Early sun: Ive eaten breakfast and ...
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• Owen Egertons 30 Writing Tips, Inspiration For Your Muse

  
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  In the spirit of Jack Kerouacs list of thirty points he called "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose: List of Essentials" here are Owen Egertons 30 pieces of writing advice. Owen Egertons 30 Writing Tips 1. Write. Now. Go. 7. Do not wait for inspiration. Go out and hunt it. Seduce it. Pin it down and dribble ...
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• Dennis O’Neil Is Not Jules Feiffer?

  
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  So there I was, standing in…no, make that sitting in for Jules Feiffer at MoCCA , a two-day long expo-type event sponsored by the Museum of Comic Art and held at the big armory on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Talk about your bait-and-switch…folks come expecting to see and hear one of our era’s defining and ...
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• Criterion ‘Naked Lunch’ Blu-ray Brings Chaos Alive

  
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  Addiction. Disease. Guilt. Paranoia. Dread. Control. Urges. Watching David Cronenberg ‘s abstract 1991 film adaptation of William S. Burroughs ‘ incendiary literary nightmare Naked Lunch , these are the themes that swirl through my head. Or penetrate my brain You see, there’s plenty of time to digest the ...
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• Hear the music, smell the whiskey and feel the sweat of this classic tale (plus WIN a free copy)

  
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  Because you can’t read a book when you’re holding a steering wheel… By Ashka Thacker On the Road by Jack Kerouac is one of those books that will make you want to get off your backside and do all the adventurous things you’ve always dreamed of. Set during the Beat movement in the USA, the novel ...
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• How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

  
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  When I was twenty-two, I was lucky enough to be the only South African on an American college campus, studying Creative Writing and trying to figure out what to do with my life (along with every other college student, it seems). One chilly Fall day, I signed up for a course that unwittingly changed my life: an ...
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• Paintings: Kristen Stewart as Marylou Moriarty in On the Road

  
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  T.E. Priemon – Encaustic Artist Artist’s Statment I am an artist who paints using a 2000-year-old painting medium used in the way the Fayum Egyptian artist used their encaustic paints for portraits, which have survived in much the same way as they were painted. I hope my paintings will survive the same test of ...
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• Hipster Style Then and Now

  
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  Hipster style and culture has certainly evolved over the years.  The hipster movement began in the 1940′s and 1950′s, with hot jazz music, jive talk and Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation.  The early hipsters roamed around America, bumming rides, food and shelter along the way. Fast forward to the early ...
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• On the Road

  
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  On the Road by Jack Kerouac My rating: 3 of 5 stars On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac’s years traveling North America with his friend Neal Cassady. The novel is largely autobiographical with “Sal Paradise” being the author, and “Dean Moriarty” being Neal Cassady, “a young Gene Autry—trim, ...
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