The Beat Generation and Travel
More so than any other literary movement, the Beats have influenced the world of travel and have...
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Lady Beats
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in one anthology as “Poet Priestess,” she is one of the more well-known of these women. My introduction to her large...
Read MoreThe Battle for Kerouac’s Estate
“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack Kerouac, 238th Chorus, Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969, of cirrhosis of the liver. By the...
Read MoreJack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard
By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s prolonged meditation on his older, saintly brother Gerard, who died at the age of nine (Jack was four at...
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