Articles related to "Jack Kerouac"



Review: Jack Kerouac's American Journey
Paul Maher Jr.'s recent biographical study entitled Jack Kerouac's American Journey coincides with the 50th anniversary of the American classic On The Road.
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Big Sur
In this, one of his final novels, Jack Kerouac confronts the dualities of pessimism and optimism, attempting to locate the tangible mid-ground
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Book Review – Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
After he was on the road, Kerouac's Sal Paradise took another journey down to Mexico and fell for this pretty-mess of a woman named Tristessa. Mistakes follow.
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Book Review – Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
This beginning novel in the ongoing Duluoz Legend gives a decent glimpse into the brilliance Kerouac would later achieve, but the glimpse arrives unfashionably late.
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Book Review: Jack Kerouac's Windblown World
Jack Kerouac's early composition journals provide valuable insight into the author and the man, his travels, and the ideas that informed his published work.
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Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
There is more to Breakfast with Buddha than the flyleaf leads one to believe. It is a road trip and a spiritual trip in one book.
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Jack Kerouac and the Other Original Beat Writers
The 'Beats' were a group of American writers who embraced originality and individuality through literature, sex, music and spirituality.
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Jack Kerouac Biography
A short summary of Jack Kerouac's life. Biographical information on his best works. Plus a list of Kerouac on the screen - big and small
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Jack Kerouac Life and Works
Brief biography and works of American writer Jack Kerouac, a leading member of the 1950s Beat Generation, along with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.
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Poetry Dynamo Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin, the most published modern poet, shares her thoughts about being a poet in America today.
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Review: Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveler is a collection of autobiographical essays detailing his travels and the various jobs he worked while writing.
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Saintly Visions or Blind Faith (Part One of Three)
A look at 20th-Century Romanticism in Three American Classics: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and J.D. Salinger's "Seymour: An Introduction."
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Books About Vagabond Travels
Modern travel writing in the United States began after the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great War of the 1940s.
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Influences on the Beat Writers
There were a number of aspects to the Beat vision, and religion and spirituality were a main part of it.
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Beatnik Novelist William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs penned "Nova Express," "The Wild Boys" and other novels. Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, he was one of the famed Beat Generation writers.
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Book Review of Red Wax Rose
A rich, Southern flavor is the key ingredient to Finch's writing in this new collection.
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Ginsberg and Dylan, Seekers
In Bob Dylan's 1978 film "Renaldo and Clara", Allen Ginsberg portrays a religious father figure. The real-life links between the two were more intriguing.
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Jesus Christ: The World's Most Original Beatnick Takes Spirituality To A Higher Level
Bohemians have been around a long time throughout history. This article looks at one of the most famous radical artists of all time; observing his legacy on the Beat movement, while observing his search for spiritual fullfillment.
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Kerouac Revisited
A look back at the significance and the theory of Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose
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To Wed An Author
A quick review of <i>Nobody's Wife</i> by Joan Kerouac.
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The Beats – A Graphic History (2009)
Jack Kerouac may be remembered for his novels and the beautiful prose that put together in such novels as On The Road. Many people do not realize it, but Kerouac also wrote poetry that also opened up new realms in literature. By mixing the sound of jazz to the beat rhythms of his poetry, Kerouac also showed his readers that words can also sing beautiful music by using the process and technique of the blues.
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The Women Behind Burroughs, Kerouac and Cassady
Meet the women who inspired and loved Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.
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Asimov's SF December 2008 Reviewed
Fiction from Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven Utley, Nebula-winner Jack McDevitt and David Ira Cleary, and facts from Robert Silverberg, Peter Heck and editor Sheila Williams
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Blues Notes Can Also Sing In The Key Of Poetry
Jack Kerouac may be remembered for his novels and the beautiful prose that put together in such novels as On The Road. Many people do not realize it, but Kerouac also wrote poetry that also opened up new realms in literature. By mixing the sound of jazz to the beat rhythms of his poetry, Kerouac also showed his readers that words can also sing beautiful music by using the process and technique of the blues.
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Hillary Clinton's French Ancestry
Hillary Clinton's most researched ancestry is her French lineage that includes founding families of Quebec, Canada's French Canadian province.
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Rambling through Northport on Long Island’s Gold Coast
Throughout the year, motorcycle riders and other New York metro area day-trippers travel to the Village of Northport to enjoy its unique charm. An easy day’s ride away from the crowded city will bring you to this New England-like waterfront town.
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The Beat Writers and Spirituality
The Beat way of life was not only a rebellion against a mainstream society, but also deeply rooted in religion and finding ways of achieving peace.
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The Sun Always Shines In A Place Called North Beach: Part I
The Beats were not always a sad lot, and they did not eternally view the world from the dark humorous viewpoint of a William S. Burroughs. Many of the beats had a love for life that came from the living on the fringe of existence, and were able to avoid the self destructive tendencies of their fellows. This series of articles looks at a survivor, by studying the life and some of the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti; a positive voice speaking the poetic word in the darkness of an eternal nightsong.
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William S. Burroughs
Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs profoundly influenced his literary peers and helped to pioneer the Beat movement.
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A Flower Grows In The Cement Stoned Landscape Of The City: Part II.
Gregory Corso was a poet who wrote with the heart of emotion, and bled these feelings into words on the printed page. He was not dandy tripping through a field of daisys, however, and saw the world as it exists, often commenting on this reality with a sharp wit that help earn him a reputation as a poet of satire, as well as, one who had mastered the craft of poetic meter. This article will look at some of the poems written by Corso, and study how they helped to convey this tougher sounding edge.
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Best Downtown Denver Neighborhoods
There's life beyond Denver's 16th Street Mall. Visit Five Points museums, LoDo bars, Uptown's Restaurant Row, the Santa Fe ArtDistrict or historic homes on Capitol Hill.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's Travelling Philosophy Lessons
Although Lynyrd Skynyrd usually toured as a rock group, their experiences, philosophy and lyrics correlate with independent travel writers and legendary travellers.
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The Beats, Bless 'em, Saluted in Book
Book describes lives of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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Greenwich Village Bohemia: A Winter Wonderland Turns Into An American Renaissance(Part II).
As the snow rained down upon Greenwich Village, the beginnings of a wonderful art movement were fixing to stir those awakenings of the literary mind. In this segment of Greenwich village memories, we continue our journey through the steps of the poetic past of the village.
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City Lights Bookstore: Where Poetics Becomes Movement. Part II.
It is said that witches haunt North Beach, and that legends abound in the alleys and streets around China Town. Ghosts are said to hang out in Washington Square. Visit a place, where time seems to stand still and magic hangs in the air in the most strangest of places.
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The Beat Generation in New York
New York City was the birthplace of the Beat Generation, one of the biggest cultural movements of the 20th century.
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Wildflowers At 70 MPH: Arizona Composites
With the spirit of Jack Kerouac, leaving the Gulf of Mexico, returning to California, blah, blah, blah.... I&#8217;ve written all about that, as well as the variety and abundance of wildflowers we saw all along the way. Even in New Mexico, a place where I expected tumbleweed and buzzards, the wildflowers were tooth-rotting eye candy. Well, dial up the dentist. Arizona was more of the same.
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Wildflowers At 70 MPH: Arizona's Botanical Rainbow
...scratching that Jack Kerouac itch alone a grand adventure, our trip across the southwestern U.S. was a gluttonous voyage of wildflowers, nearly culminating with the Composites of Arizona. But we weren&#8217;t finished. We still had to roll up our pants legs and wade through a botanical rainbow.
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Zen Quotes by Sun Sign
Here are some great meditations for your sign. From the blogs' "Zen Quote of the Day" series.
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The Rolling Stones
Review of the book by Robert Palmer
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Allen Ginsberg's Howl
Allen Ginsberg's ground-breaking poem "Howl," published in 1956, expressed the anger of a generation. It also shocked, provoked, and thrilled readers -- then and now.
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California Coast Travel Guidebook
The California coast is one of the state's best attractions. The Lonely Planet guide covers Disneyland, Pacific Coast Highway, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.
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Indicting The Canon
An attack on the literary canon, best sellers and all the other crap that is ruining Literature
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Lewis and Clark and Jefferson
Before George Mahris and Martin Milner and <I>Route 66</i>; before Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy and <I>On the Road</i>; before Laura Ingalls Wilder and <I>Little House on the Prairie</i>; before Joseph Smith and his Mormons; before all these westward-ho wayfarers, seekers, and dreamers struck camp and hit the road there were a couple of guys by the name of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who first followed the sun across this great land of ours. And botany was a focal point.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's Greatest Travel Songs
Lynyrd Skynyrd head back out on the road for a world tour next month, and it is no surprise to any of their fans that the rock and roll hobos are again a travelling band.
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The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
A solid collection of Robert Byrne's favorite quotes, and a good alternative to the comprehensive list of everything anyone ever said.
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The Beat Poets and Mexico
The rebellious, 'Beat' poets of the 1950s and '60s did what many American writers have done, before and since and travelled south to sample the high life in Mexico.
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Top Ten Best Travel Books of the 20th Century
Armchair travelers delight in 20th-century masterpieces by Leigh Fermor, Least Heat Moon, Newby, Naipul, Bryson, Mary Morris, Kerouac, Peter Fleming, Chatwin and Theroux.
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Allen Ginsberg Life and Poetry
Brief biography of Allen Ginsberg, a poet and leading figure of America's Beat era of new American poets. Famous for poems Howl and Kaddish.
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Drug May Help Remove Bad Memories
Neuroscientists are getting closer and closer to unlocking the mysteries of how the human brain works.
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