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Articles tagged "beat literature"
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by Frank Wilson [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]
[5.Oct.07] :. OK, so here I am, sitting in front of a computer, 50 years after the fact of the matter—which is the publication, on Sept. 5, 1957, of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”—and...
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by Steve Paul [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]
[5.Sep.07] :. The road narrative has been a staple of American literature from Lewis-and-Clark days to Cormac McCarthy’s most recent novel.
One of the most enduring, if not always endearing, accounts of men...
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by Bill Marvel [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]
[4.Sep.07] :. Fifty years ago this week, a generation of Americans went “On the Road.”
We were mostly in our late teens or early 20s, mostly male, and we had discovered Jack Kerouac’s picaresque...
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by Alfred Lubrano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]
[29.Aug.07] :. From its start, America was a westward-leaning country.
The notion that a person could always head west to pursue his dreams, find himself, or start over is a basic tenet of American myth and...
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