It’s Shakespeare in Lowell –the stage piled with ghostly corpses, the heroes all dead, the young bard in mourning.
Jack Kerouac
Book Review: “The Unknown Kerouac” — Unnecessary?
The Unknown Kerouac is good for the advancement of Kerouac scholarship, but the book hardly justifies, for the average reader, its price and size.
Book Interview: Todd Tietchen on Jack Kerouac — Torn Between Routes and Roots.
The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
Book Review: Jack Kerouac in Mexico — Fiction Dressed as Fact
Reading 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.
Book Review: “The Haunted Life” — Learning About What it Took to Become Jack Kerouac
“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.
Book Review: Herbert Huncke — The “American Hipster” Who Influenced The Beat Movement
Hilary Holladay’s biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored.
Film Commentary: Visions of “On the Road,” the Movie
Jack Kerouac once said that “On the Road” “was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God,” but the spiritual element of his journey is completely lacking in the film.
Book Review: Traveling Down ‘Paradise Road’
Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac’s Lost Highway and My Search for America by Jay Atkinson, Wiley and Sons, 250 pages, $25.95 Reviewed By Nancye Tuttle I’m ready to pack my bag and hit the road. But it isn’t Jack Kerouac’s iconic 1957 novel On the Road that’s fueling my wanderlust. It’s Jay Atkinson’s compelling, new memoir […]