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‘The Trickster In Ginsberg’ by Katherine C. Mead-Brewer
I am not sure how I first stumbled upon ‚The Trickster In Ginsberg’ by Baltimore based writer Katherine C Mead-Brewer, but the title immediately caught my attention as Allen Ginsberg’s life and work...
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Burning Furiously Beautiful The True Story Of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road
Burning Furiously Beautiful – The True Story Of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road Paul Maher Jr. & Stephanie Nikolopoulos I head to wait a long time to finally get a copy of Burning Furiously Beautiful,...
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Jack Kerouac : The Town And The City
Jack Kerouac : The Town And The City (1950 Harcourt Brace) I don’t really see this post as a book review as such – a lot has been written about Kerouac’s work by people who can do this much better...
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Stuart, Iowa
Where Jack Kerouac ‘took one little walk along the lonely brickwalls illuminated by one lamp, with the prairie brooding at the end of each little street and the smell of corn like dew in the night.’...
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M & M Cigar Store, Butte, Montana
According the Butte America website on which I found the following quote, Jack Kerouac stopped by the M&M Cigar Store one time. I can’t say when exactly that was, as I don’t know if and when he...
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The Dharma Bums, Chapter 34
… , I realized, ‘there is no answer.’ I didn’t know anything any more, I didn’t care, and it didn’t matter, and suddenly I felt really free. The Dharma Bums, Chapter 34
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Following The Dharma Bums To Matterhorn Peak (Pt.1)
As described in this post The Dharma Bums has always been a special book for me and it ranks right up there with On The Road and The Town And The City as one of my favorite books of his. The...
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Home I’ll Never Be
Two quite different versions of Kerouac’s Home I’ll Never Be which is also known as On The Road (but I guess that’s more out of commercial interest). A reading of it was apparently released on...
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Following The Dharma Bums To Matterhorn Peak (Pt. 2)
After a good night’s sleep I woke up to a glorious, sunny day filled with fresh air and made my way to Twin Lakes from where you have to start the hike up towards Matterhorn Peak. Driving up the (now...
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I found this interesting interview with John J Dorfner over on Empty Mirror Books earlier today. I don’t know when that article was published but I have missed it so far. I recently bought Visions Of...
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