Ann Charters Interview
I recently found this interview with Jack Kerouac biographer Ann Charters. As you can see from the photo of my copies of both the Selected Letters 1940-1956 and Selected Letters 1957-1969, I spent quite a bit of time studying both books. The interview is quite old, taking place in San Francisco in March of 1995, … Continue reading
Happy Birthday City Lights
Despite Jack Kerouac perhaps not playing that big of a role in the history of the City Lights Bookstore and City Lights Publishing (as far as I know they only published one or two poetry collections by Kerouac) I found it fitting to upload this post. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a longtime friend of Kerouac, most … Continue reading
Kerouac, Steinbeck and a new direction for Retracing Jack Kerouac
True to the title of the blog, I originally planned to limit myself to only posting photos of the places of importance to Kerouac that I visited. However, as I already put up most of the photos taken on the two trips in October of 2010 and March 2012 that provided the majority of the … Continue reading
‘We were near Fredericksburg Texas in the high plains’ (On The Road)
Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Louanne Henderson were on their way to El Paso from Houston when they passed Federicksburg.
Retracing Jack Kerouac 