It is 7:00 am. I have to work a little early tomorrow later today. Ok, that means I have to be there at 4 instead of 5. All the same the precious hours allowed for sleep are ticking away from me ( Read more... )

So (experiments) are many modern canvasses as you know. The sketch is a fine "Form ( Read more... )

". . .Entry: Re Jack's prose, well I like it of course, my reason being that it has the same syntactical structure of fast excited spoken talking-this is an interesting event in prose development, and it's no less communicative to me than heard speech, mine, yours, his,-when you speak you also talk a little like that, especially when you're moved, ( Read more... )

It is 6:13 PM I have been searching through my JS blog for a list of books I have in my Allen Ginsberg collection. To my amazement I have not updated that list since January 2005! I have to go down in the basement soon and dig out all the new Ginsberg books I bought over the last three years. I was sure I had a blog entry with recent Ginsberg books ( Read more... )

This just popped up on the radar: a new Kerouac documentary produced by Jim Sampas et al.

One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur takes the viewer back to Ferlinghetti’s cabin and to the Beat haunts of San Francisco and New York City for an unflinching, cinematic look at the compelling events the book is based on. The story unfolds in several ( Read more... )

First recording of Allen Ginsberg reading poem 'Howl' found at Oregon college  By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore ( Read more... )

I recommend this new book on Jack "Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road" by Isaac Gewirtz.

'On the Road' takes long route to screen by Paul Clark

Jack Kerouac claimed he wrote "On the Road" in 25 days, banging it out on a single Teletype scroll. But why the novel has taken more than a half-century to hit the screen is a tale with as many turns as Kerouac's own cross-country odyssey.

Producer-director Francis Ford Coppola bought the film ( Read more... )

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The morning keeps going by. I took Rudy for a walk at Kollen Park. A beauiful morning by the Lake. A morning to lift up your heart in prayer to God the Father. On the way home from our walk we stopped at Reader's World to see if any of my Kerouac books had come in. Two of them had come in and I bought them. I bought these two Kerouac books this ( Read more... )