THE DAILY BEAT: Lowell Celebrates Kerouac 2011 preliminary schedule

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac 2011 preliminary schedule

Click here for the preliminary schedule for this year's Lowell Celebrates Kerouac. If you've never been before, it's well worth it. Stay at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center - it's the best location (used to be the Doubletree). The pub crawl moved from Thursday to Friday this year, which is fine by me - I only have to miss work on Friday.

2 comments:

Mark Butkus said...: Sitting in Italy, awaiting Morocco and anticipating David Amram at LCK. Hope to see you there, brother.; July 27, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Rick Dale, author of The Beat Handbook said...: Definitely come introduce yourself. I still look like my picture (hair might not be quite that long). Jealous of you seeing Italy and Morocco!; July 27, 2011 at 2:20 PM

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."