Sunday, April 23, 2017

Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades by John Suiter

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Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades A few months ago, this book arrived in the mail...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Jack Kerouac's Stations of the Cross and the Grotto protected in perpetuity

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The Grotto at the Franco American School in Lowell, MA (c) 2015 Rick Dale Stations of the Cross at the Franco American School in Lowel...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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Here are some recent newsy pieces related to Jack Kerouac. The first is a story about the future of Kerouac's St. Petersburg house. T...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Jack Kerouac on Reddit

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Screenshot of the Jack Kerouac subreddit I've mentioned this before on The Daily Beat  (circa 2012), but for new readers and also f...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

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I was just looking at stats for The Daily Beat and noticed that a fairly recent post (December 4, 2016) has crept up to #7 on the all-time ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Jack Kerouac: On Death

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I've been thinking about death this week as I had traveled back to Pennsylvania last weekend to attend a good friend's funeral. Here...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

On The Road: Chapters in One Sentence

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Each time we've read On The Road in my Kerouac class at the University of Maine at Farmington (every spring since 2013), I have ha...