THE DAILY BEAT: Kerouac redux

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Kerouac redux

Classes at my university start today, and tomorrow I will be meeting with my First Year Seminar class for the first time. The theme for the semester? Jack Kerouac.

This will be my fourth time teaching the course, so I have a pretty good idea about what we'll be reading and doing. However, I'm curious about what knowledge, skills, and dispositions that readers of The Daily Beat would expect students to come away with from an introductory course on Kerouac.

I look forward to your comments.

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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."