Note the author's name in the original edition If you've never read  The Town and the City , Kerouac's first published nove...

Sitting here without a breath to my name it seems ludicrous to avoid any insurgent uprisings volcano-like but brown not white even so they c...

Poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 97 today. Co-founder of San Francisco's City Lights Books in 1953 with Peter D. Marti...

I just finished Patti Smith's M Train , a gift from my great friend and fellow Kerouacian, Richard Marsh. Richard has been a fan of ...

I saw the following on Aram Saroyan's Facebook page: MICHAEL HARRIS as Lew Welch in A TENDER MIND The Life and Times of Lew Welch, Be...

One of my Kerouac class students is writing his research paper on the influence of Jack Kerouac's brother, Gerard, on Jack's lif...

For pretty much as long as I can remember, I have had a fascination with unexplained ("anomalous") phenomena: ghosts, the Loch Nes...