jack kerouac

Leo Writes

Leo is known as a bigot but, as Jack Kerouac writes in the last pages of The Haunted Life i,…

12 years ago

Pulling Our Daisy: The Illusion of Spontaneity

1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs published Naked Lunch…

12 years ago

Doctor William S. Sax and Bird of Paradise

Doctor William S. Sax and Bird of Paradise Faust Part Three Sad Catholic childhood as dark nuns weep in rain…

12 years ago

Carl Solomon on NOT Publishing Jack Kerouac

The following is from an interview with Carl Solomon, conducted by John Tytell in 1973. John Tytell's collected interviews (with…

12 years ago

Call for Submissions: Beatdom #15

The Beat Generation, it seems, dominated American culture between two major wars. The history books will tell you that they…

12 years ago

The Sea Is My Sister

The sea is my sister Perth saint is my brother Brothers are uncles Uncles and nuncles Philip, James, Frank, and…

12 years ago

Celebrate Jack Kerouac’s Birthday with The Haunted Life

Today is 12th March, and that means it's Jack Kerouac's birthday. Every year, people celebrate by embarking upon road trips,…

12 years ago

Kolya Krasotkin Wept

“. . . when the children guitared At my footbed, Kolya Krosotkins of my railroad”i Kolya Krasotkin, that little son…

12 years ago

Preakness Springs Young Writer’s Dreams

Preakness springs young writer’s dreams Castles soar in fresh bright air Precious Underwood close at hand And typewriter of thy…

12 years ago

Go… the Summer, Fall, and Winter of Discontent

The summer, the fall, and the winter of discontent, shovel after shovel of snow that turns to filthy slush, as…

12 years ago

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