THE DAILY BEAT: Jack Kerouac: Graduation Speaker

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Jack Kerouac: Graduation Speaker

Click here to read about Jack Kerouac being the best possible choice as a graduation speaker. Clever article!

Maybe we could find someone to channel him.

1 comment:

Urban Lander said...: He would be a good graduation speaker but not university promotor. He would make everyone want to quit and go traveling, writing or whatever else they felt like.; May 20, 2010 at 7:16 PM

Post a Comment

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."