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...parking lots. This analysis is arguably simplistic, but the fact remains that Brouws’s photographs testify to the uniformity of the landscape marred by highways, rest areas, and suburbs. Whether in New York, Ohio, or Oklahoma, all McDonalds’ restaurants incontestably look the same. Jack Kerouac may have wanted to be “on the road,” but had he lived till the ’90s, he would have quickly come to the realization that it was the same road, wherever he went. This brings us to the question of travel...
...spring of 1951 in New York City, Jack Kerouac sat down to type his magnum opus, On the Road, onto 10 rolls of architectural tracing paper taped together to create the most famous scroll in secular literary history. Now the scroll travels back to New York for the 50th anniversary of On the Road's first printing...
From Nov. 9, 2007, through March 16, 2008, 60 ft. (18.3 m) of it will be on show, along with other Beatific ephemera, at the New York Public Library's main branch on 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. The exhibition includes some of Kerouac's earliest journals, plus family photographs, letters and manuscripts scrawled out and doodled upon...
Just don't look here for evidence of the finger-snapping hipsters that the loaded term Beat conjures. Kerouac never identified with the counter-culture that adopted his masterpiece as a generational guidebook to social dissent. For him, the Beatific was a solitary state of mind, and he satisfied his own spirituality not with hipness, but with a scholarly ardor. Kerouac was complicated: shy but frenetically communicative, he admired Buddha and St. Francis of Assisi yet supported the Vietnam War. "So often Kerouac is seen as a wild man and genius who didn't know what he was doing," says...
...didn't care. He wanted to entertain himself. If people wanted to yell "Judas," that was part of the entertainment. Besides, there were plenty of people who dug whatever he did. Dylan wanted to be a successful [Jack] Kerouac: a total romantic populist at a time when, basically everything - movies, musicals, writing - was encased in intellectual confinements. You had to be one type of writer or another. Dylan didn't bother with labels...