jack kerouac

Best Dream and Book of Dreams

The best dream I ever had brought me joy. (My best friend of more than twenty years died. That’s not…

12 years ago

Dostoyevsky’s Heavenly Christmas Tree

For “electronic laser TV generations that don’t read Dostoyevsky” quoth Allen Ginsberg Fyodor, Fedor, Feodor Dostoevski, Dostoievsky, Dostoevskii, Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky…

12 years ago

A Gentle Creature

A gentle creature A slender young woman, fifteen years and nine months With very large eyes An orphan who lives…

12 years ago

Visions of Winter… Russia… Cody

Hot chocolate . . . delicious Blustery deep freeze winds Cut through cruel canyons of Manhattan Past Dostoevsky Christmas angels Huddled…

12 years ago

Trek to the Berg

The things I do in pursuit of the true Jack Kerouac . . . it’s always daunting driving into New…

12 years ago

Sad in Paris

Paris in search of a name Meaning house in the field Love Suffer and Work is thy motto The loneliest…

12 years ago

The Town and the City

The Town and the City is a complete joy, Jack Kerouac’s holiday present to the world. As the New England…

12 years ago

The Second Wave of American Interest in Japanese Culture: Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder

by Charlie Canning Photos by John La Farge and David S. Wills   Since the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1853,…

12 years ago

Jack and Frank

“Jack’s ultimate vision of success was himself and Sinatra as drinking buddies singing songs to each other.” [ i] Jack…

12 years ago

A Soft Old Book with Handwritten Notes as Memento of a Life

“Be always a poet, even in prose.” Charles Baudelaire Yesterday, I inherited a first-edition (1961) paperback Baudelaire by Pascal Pia…

12 years ago

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