Articles tagged "jack kerouac"

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An Unlikely Candidate for Influence: ‘Naked Lunch’ at 50 Years Young

by Dave Teeuwen

[17.Jul.09] :. William S. Burroughs changed the way writers would think of honesty in literature, achieving the mark of true greatness in 20th century literature by releasing the last banned book in the United States.

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Little Murders: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

by Rodger Jacobs

[20.Mar.09] :. This is not Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation but, rather, Hunter S. Thompson’s Generation of Swine, the urban home front during the waning days of World War II, gritty and unvarnished, and chillingly reflective of modern sociology.

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Books Review

The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

by Wilson McBee

[2.Dec.08] :. Ginsberg was hyperaware of the frequent charge that Beat poetry was little more than improvised mumbo jumbo baked from jazz records and marijuana smoke.

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Kerouac manuscript unscrolled for Beat exhibit

by Robert Mitchum [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[2.Oct.08] :. When Jack Kerouac sat down at his typewriter to write what would become his landmark novel, “On the Road,” he didn’t want to be slowed down by regularly switching sheets of...

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Film DVD Review

Robert Frank: The Complete Film Works: Volumes 1, 2 & 3

by Chris Robé

[29.Aug.08] :. As Frank’s films reveal, a lack of access to avant-garde cinema is a collective denial of a vital part of our selves.

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Jack Kerouac’s sound of America

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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After 50 years, Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ still matters

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...

 

A trip to remember as ‘On the Road’ turns 50

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...

 

Readers head down Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ again as the book turns 50

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...