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Monday, June 27, 2011

The new On The Road app outsold the Bible last week

Jack's back in a big way, outselling the Bible last week with the On The Road iPad app.

Click here for details and a video.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

On The Road app for iPad

Penguin has just released an iPad version of On The Road, featuring an interactive map of the route, rare audio clips of Jack reading from an early version of the book, photographs, letters between Kerouac and his editors, and more.

Read about it here.

It's almost enough to make me want an iPad.

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."