Fifty Years After Kerouac
On this date, fifty years ago, Jack Kerouac passed away in St. Petersburg, Florida. The poet and...
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Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma
The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said...
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Daddy’s Girl
Gregory Corso loved Jack Kerouac and Jack loved Joan Haverty, his second wife, loved her at least...
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Reflections on Jack Kerouac’s Favorite Line in Shakespeare
While his student at Naropa Institute in 1977, I heard the poet Gregory Corso drunkenly inform...
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Beyond Jazz: Kerouac and Music
The links between the Beat Generation and music seem obvious, and many of them have been pretty...
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Review: Translating the Counterculture
Erik Mortenson’s Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey examines the...
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After Me, The Deluge: Considering Kerouac’s Final Statement
An artistic and introverted spirit, Jack Kerouac never set out to become the leader of one of the...
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Review: I Am The Revolutionary
Paul Maher Jr has written an intimate, interesting look at the life of Jack Kerouac – not the...
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The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation
The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism...
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Cool Cats: Beat Poets and their Feline Friends
For some reason, if you look back through literary history, it seems most great authors had a...
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What the Beats can teach us about writing
The Beat Generation was not just important as a countercultural movement. We don’t just remember...
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The Best Beat Generation Letter Collections
The writers of the Beat Generation were not just great at composing poems or producing...
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