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Friday, January 16, 2009

Literary Kicks

Literary Kicks (e.g., this page is a very well-written article about the On The Road scroll in Chicago) is a website that beat aficionados will want to check out. As it says on their About Us page:

We've gone through a wide variety of different looks in our thirteen-year history. LitKicks began as a very simple set of text pages about the Beat Generation, supplemented by Beat News, which future archeologists may someday identify as the earliest literary blog.

Literary Kicks was founded in 1994 by Levi Asher. I sent him a copy of The Beat Handbook to review, but have heard nothing. That was months ago. I guess it's too "lowbrow" for him.

Oh, well . . . . Maybe some of my minions will e-mail him at levi.asher@gmail.com and ask him to review it.

Whether he reviews my book or not, positive review or negative, I still like the blog - I visit it every day to see what's doing.

3 comments:

Jonny Ross said...: Thanks for the article. There's a fairly interesting article on On the Road in Kotori Magazine. It examines the book's continued appeal fifty years after it was first published, and why it remains relevant to our modern times.

http://kotorimagazine.com/beat_goes_on/214.html; January 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Ronid Aka Akhu said...: Hi Rick!
I have received your beautiful book, the Beat handbook. I have been planning to make a short film on Beat Generation in India and your book will help me immensely. I'm still reading it and enjoying every word!
thank you; first, for writing this book and second, for giving me one.
lets keep the "beat" kicking! dig the ride; January 17, 2009 at 1:29 AM
Rick Dale, author of The Beat Handbook said...: Jonny, thanks for the article tip!
Ronid, you're welcome and good luck with the film!; January 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM

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Reviews of The Beat Handbook

Gerald Nicosia, author of the acclaimed Kerouac biography Memory Babe, said The Beat Handbook is "full of Jack's heart."

Jared Randall, author of the excellent book of poetry, Apocryphal Road Code, said this about The Beat Handbook: "Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time. In my wandering pack of experiences, I find they often do. Enter The Beat Handbook by Rick Dale."

Kenneth Morris, Kerouacian extraordinaire, said this:
"I just finished reading Rick Dale's beautiful utterance and call to action of Kerouac mind-set and zen sensibilities. It made me laugh and reflect on my own life and road I have naturally grooved into after absorbing the Kerouac canon. The road less traveled always had my name on it. And that has made all the difference. The Beat Handbook 100 Days of Kerouactions reaffirms the attitudes and ideology that made the Beats and Kerouac the important men of ideas that America (and the world) thirsted for, needed, and swallowed whole. Beautiful, absorbing, Top Ten whipsmart from my articulate, tender-hearted friend and fellow traveler. Highly recommended."