jack kerouac

Alt Lit as the New Beat Generation

“Do you think in five years the national media will create a stupid term like blogniks to describe us?”  …

12 years ago

Joe Gould’s Secret Discovered in the Afterword of Hippos

“The usual assortment of stupid characters was assembled in Minetta’s. Joe Gould was sitting at a table.” And the Hippos…

12 years ago

Two Young Men and Two Paintings on a Hot Summer Day

“In the air-cooled museum Phil spent ten minutes in front of a portrait of Jean Cocteau by Modigliani. . .…

12 years ago

“The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise” and the Hippos and Benny Goodman and the Savoy

“We passed the Apollo theater . . . . and then we crossed the street to a penny arcade .…

12 years ago

Subterranean Lost Love

“They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual as hell and know all…

13 years ago

Another Unpublished Kerouac Book Coming 2014

THE HAUNTED LIFE by Jack Kerouac, due March 2014: Jack Kerouac wrote THE HAUNTED LIFE in 1944 when he was…

13 years ago

On the Road (2012) on iTunes

Last year's hit Beat movie, On the Road, based upon the novel of the same name by Jack Kerouac, is…

13 years ago

Summer Bop 2013

“All I can say is, if you know Jimmy Heath, you know Bop.” — Dizzy Gillespiei (more…)

13 years ago

Drinking from the Beat Menu

 Jack Kerouac Gin, whiskey, beer, cognac, and wine   According to his biographer, Michael Dittman, as a young construction worker…

13 years ago

Beets and Beats and Bebop

"I make a crazy Chinese sweet and sour sauce on the hot stove, compounded of turnip greens, sauerkraut, honey, molasses,…

13 years ago

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