Word: kerouac
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...THINKING OF MAKING ON THE ROAD A vast story of those I know," Jack Kerouac confided to his journals, "as well as a study of rain and rivers." Rain and rivers--why not? For his hyperkinetic, endearing, exasperating 1957 novel, Kerouac tried to admit whole worlds. An account of a few pinwheeling characters in perpetual cross-country motion, it had room to spare for rivers, landscapes, starry skies, Benzedrine addicts, endless marathons of driving and lots of fast-talking madmen. "Because the only people for me are the mad ones," Kerouac's narrator, Sal Paradise, tells us. "The ones...
From 1953 until his death, Plimpton edited the prestigious Paris Review, nurturing the nascent careers of Jack Kerouac and Phillip Roth...
...revolution may not be televised, but everyone at a recent production of Kerouac-quoting, stigmata-bearing, porc-munching Jack L. Deluge ’04’s comedy “Oily White Sky” could see the revolution in his pants as he straddled Margaret O. Sasser ’04 and painted vaguely sexual anti-corporate slogans on her body. Maybe someday his subversive art will be allowed upstairs in his building...
Poet Lisa Jarnot, currently teaching at the Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, reads from her new book Ring of Fire. Award-winning poet and UMass Amherst professor Peter Gizzi joins Jarnot to present poetry from his new book, Some Values of Landscape and Weather. 5 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books...
...America is mostly fueled by interest in meditation, which many perceive as a trendy and reliable form of stress relief. The image of Buddhism in popular culture is also often linked to what converted-Buddhist Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 calls the “whole Jack Kerouac form of Buddhism—tantric sex and driving around drinking.” Despite the much-bemoaned supposed lack of these two elements in undergraduate social life, that alone does not account for the many students and other Harvard affiliates who, equipped with sleeping bags and neon lawn chairs...