Jack Kerouac
In “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac voiced a longing to be “other.” He achieves this transfiguration in “Pic.”
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Jack Kerouac’s best work is often driven by a hunger for spiritual nourishment: the soul food his protagonists occasionally find in friendships, in jazz, in oceanic moments of oneness.
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You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.
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It’s Shakespeare in Lowell –the stage piled with ghostly corpses, the heroes all dead, the young bard in mourning.
Read MoreThe Unknown Kerouac is good for the advancement of Kerouac scholarship, but the book hardly justifies, for the average reader, its price and size.
Read MoreThe hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
Read MoreReading this book is like listening to a lively conversation from a self-proclaimed Kerouac authority giving his opinions over a café con leche late at night at Cafe Pamplona in Harvard Square.
Read More“The Haunted Life” is little more than an example of the staggering amount of work it takes for a writer to find his voice, a testament to the years of toil Kerouac put in before forging a style all his own.
Read MoreHilary Holladay’s biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored.
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Arts Remembrance: Jack Kerouac at 100 — A Conversation with John Sampas
Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 17. A 2014 conversation about the writer with his literary executor, the late John Sampas.
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