THE DAILY BEAT: The Brandeis debate

Friday, August 10, 2012

The Brandeis debate

If you've never read about or listened to the 1959 Brandeis debate featuring Jack Kerouac and several other notables, click here for a summary and a link to the audio from the WYNC Archives (45 minutes long and be warned, it takes a while to load). The question posed to the panel was, "What is the Beat Generation?"

Jack called the question "'very silly because we should be wondering tonight, is there a world?'"

I love this stuff. Enjoy.

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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."