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List of Reviews of “On the Road”
[official film still from On the Road] Yesterday, I posted my review of the On the Road film adaptation. As LeVar Burton used to say on Reading Rainbow, “But you don’t have to take my word for it.”...
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New Year’s Eve with Jack Kerouac
“The parties were enormous; there were at least a hundred people at Herb Benjamin’s basement apartment in the west nineties. People overflowed into the cellar compartments near the furnace. Something...
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My Year in Review: 2012
What a full year 2012 was! Here’s a quick little recap::: In January I announced that the rumors were true. But it took the full year for it to finally look like this. In February I joined Pinterest to...
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Kristen Stewart Hits the Road
Kristen Stewart, who played Marylou in the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, is reportedly on a summer road trip in the South. According to sev-er-al sources, she’s been hanging out at...
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“On the Road”‘s Dilemma
“[M]ost people (perhaps increasingly) don’t seem to be drawn to fiction that offers more questions than answers,” writes Rob Roberge in “Literary Fiction’s Dilemma” for The Rumpus. Toward the end of...
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Is Hollywood Glamorizing the Beats or Just Retelling Their Stories?
“The flat Hollywood characterization allows viewers to live vicariously through Ginsberg, Kerouac and the gang, but it almost mythicizes them. Hollywood digs right into the drama — catering to what...
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Jack Kerouac’s First Novel Translated in Persian, and It’s Not “On the Road”
More than fifty years after he rose to literary stardom in America, a novel by Jack Kerouac is being published in Persian for the first time, according to Iran Book News Agency. Rozaneh Publications...
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UCLA Prof Blames “Beatniks” for Kristen Stewart’s Poetry
Kristen Stewart’s poetry has been blowing up the internet. I read a bunch of snarky comments about it on facebook last night, and this afternoon on my lunch break I discovered via Poets & Writers...
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“On the Road” Turns 57!
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road turns fifty-seven years old today! It’s such a vibrant work that continues to inspire people to pick up a pen or hit the road that it’s hard to believe it’s been around for...
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10 Articles on Jack Kerouac’s Catholicism to Celebrate the Pope’s Visit to...
Benedict F. Giamo’s Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester Pope Francis is in New York City. There are cops everywhere. Everyone I know, Catholic or not, is excited. I’ve...
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