Brando should have played Dean; Jack’s 1957 letter to Marlon asking him to buy the film rights to On…
"In those days I was writing a Joyce-like novel in which I was the Dedalus; and called myself Duluoz. Let's…
The following is from an interview with Carl Solomon, conducted by John Tytell in 1973. John Tytell's collected interviews (with…
The summer, the fall, and the winter of discontent, shovel after shovel of snow that turns to filthy slush, as…
From: While the name Herbert Huncke may not be well-known among the general population, it is certainly familiar to readers…
by Charlie Canning Photos by John La Farge and David S. Wills Since the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1853,…
“Be always a poet, even in prose.” Charles Baudelaire Yesterday, I inherited a first-edition (1961) paperback Baudelaire by Pascal Pia…
Last year's hit Beat movie, On the Road, based upon the novel of the same name by Jack Kerouac, is…
We recently passed a watershed moment in modern American literature, as November, 2012, marked sixty years since John Clellon Holmes…
Joyce Johnson’s role in Beat history is too often viewed simply as that of Jack Kerouac’s girlfriend. There is surprise…
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