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, especially since I was determined to wait for the print edition (the ebook one was published a bit earlier). Haven’t … Continue reading
‘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 are intrinsically tied to that of Jack Kerouac and some of his poems are amongst the most beautiful I know. But its … Continue reading
Retracing Jack Kerouac nominated for the Liebster Award
I messed up my previous attempt of reblogging the post by Katherine C Mead-Brewer so I am posting it again – here’s the link to Katherine’s fine blog Writing Reconsidered (more information about that coming soon on Retracing Jack Kerouac): http://howlinghowl.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nominated-for-the-liebster-award/ As the rules stipulate that you nominate 10 other blogs with less than 200 … Continue reading
Jack Kerouac : The Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums has always been one of my favorite Kerouac books. What I loved from the first time I read it is the relaxed, peaceful and serene atmosphere described in most chapters, such as in the ones in which Ray (Kerouac) and Japhy Ryder (Gary Snyder) are sitting in a cabin, talking and having … Continue reading
4th Of July update
Just a little update to let you know that I just came back from my first long-ish hike (about 9 miles) done in preparation of the hiking I want to do next year in Sierra Nevada. The inspiration for that of course being Kerouac’s Dharma Bums which I started to read and which will be … Continue reading
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.
Anywhere Road review on Empty Mirror Books
The first review of my book ‘Anywhere Road’ – check it out here: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/beat/kerouac-2/anywhere-road-retracing-jack-kerouac.html
Retracing Jack Kerouac 