THE DAILY BEAT: The Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature

Every other year, UMass Lowell in Lowell, MA (Jack's hometown) holds The Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature. The next conference is scheduled for the first Thursday and Friday in October 2009. Here's the website. I contacted Professor Holladay. She didn't provide me with any additional information, but did encourage me to submit a proposal.

October is the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival, and I haven't been able to confirm a date for that. However, I don't think the two events will interfere with each other.

Yup! That could mean two weekends in Lowell this October.

Smile.

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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."