THE DAILY BEAT: Jack Kerouac's Daily Routine?

Click here for advice on writing routines from famous writers compiled by Maria Popova on Brain Pickings. Our boy Jack is represented, although I'm not sure it's the quote I would have culled from everything he's said on the subject.

Other authors represented include:

Ray Bradbury

Joan Didion

E.B. White

Susan Sontag

Henry Miller

Simone de Beauvoir

Ernest Hemingway

Don DeLillo

Ben Franklin

Haruki Murakami
William Gibson
Maya Angelou
Anais Nin
Kurt Vonnegut

Jack's certainly in good company, yes?

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."

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Jack Kerouac's Daily Routine?

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