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Jack Kerouac

Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60

You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Alfred Leslie, Jack Kerouac, Pull My Daisy, Robert Frank, Steve Provizer

Theater Review: “The Haunted Life”– The Lyricism of Jack Kerouac’s Formative Years

It’s Shakespeare in Lowell –the stage piled with ghostly corpses, the heroes all dead, the young bard in mourning.

By: Jay Atkinson Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Jack Kerouac, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Sean Daniels, The Haunted Life

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.

By: Troy Pozirekides Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jack Kerouac, Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Library-of-America, The Unknown Kerouac, Todd Tietchen, Troy Pozirekides

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Big Sur, Jack Kerouac, Library-of-America, Todd Tietchen, Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard

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.

By: Paul Dervis Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: End of the Road, Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac in Mexico, Jorge Garcia-Robles, Paul Dervis

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.

By: Troy Pozirekides Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Da Capo Press, Jack Kerouac, The Haunted Life and Other Writings, Todd F. Tietchen

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.

By: Troy Pozirekides Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Allen Ginsberg, American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, Herbert Huncke, Hilary Holladay, Jack Kerouac

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film Tagged: Garrett Hedlund, Jack Kerouac, Kristen Stewart, On the Road, Sam Riley, Walter Salles

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 […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books Tagged: Jack Kerouac, Jay Atkinson, Neal Cassidy, On the Road, Paradise Road

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