THE DAILY BEAT: "A Slightly Embarrassing Love for Jack Kerouac" by Amanda Petrusich

Thursday, November 8, 2018

"A Slightly Embarrassing Love for Jack Kerouac" by Amanda Petrusich

I've been catching up on my on-line Kerouac content. I've been so focused on my Kerouac bookshelf curation project since February that I haven't been keeping current with Kerouac news and articles.

Click here for an article from the New Yorker by Amanda Petrusich titled, "A Slightly Embarrassing Love for Jack Kerouac."

It's a good essay, honest and insightful, published to coincide with Jack's birthday week. I missed it in March but I enjoyed it this morning -- I think you will, too.

Here's the actual link for future reference: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-slightly-embarrassing-love-for-jack-kerouac

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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."