Jack Kerouac

From Beatnik to Tweetnik: Brazilian Filmster Gins Up Kerouac's Fifities Favela

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.31.2012

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On The Road, the Kerouac movie property that languished under the control of Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola for three decades finally broke out of development hell and laid an egg in Cannes.

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Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.27.2012

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong.

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On the Road - Delivers!

Jerry Cimino | Posted 05.23.2012

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In life, some things are worth waiting for. Case in point: the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel, On the Road. Purists will be elated, as the film honors Jack Kerouac and is true to his book.

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Kristen Stewart Gets Sexual In 'On The Road'

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 05.23.2012

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Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" finally made its big-screen debut Wednesday at Cannes, and Kristen Stewart apparently left quite the impression on the au...

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Kerouac at the Cinema

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.24.2012

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I can see myself, talking about one of those books of life, a source of sustenance for young people refusing the inevitability of an timid existence, one somehow cracked or just rocked softly into precocious old age, a book like a bible, a treatise on savoir-vivre for the use of future generations, Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

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Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas From? An Interview with Celia Blue Johnson

Brian Gresko | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Se-Hinton, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Inspiration, JRR Tolkien the Hobbit, Jack Kerouac, Writing, Writing Inspiration, AA Milne, Writing Advice, Mrs. Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

In short, pithy essays, Celia Blue Johnson recounts how the simplest moments -- a trip, an odd job -- inspired some of the most beloved classics of Western literature. I talked with her to hear more about these fascinating accounts.

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Cleto Munari Auctions His Collection

J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Furniture, Carlo Scarpa, Jack Kerouac, Poet, Architecture, Robert Venturi, Jewelry, Allen Ginsberg, Silverware, Gregory Corso, Artist, Designers, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Cleto Munari, Arts News

Designer Cleto Munari is putting his personal collection of art, furnishings and objects -- many created in conjunction with architects like Michael G...

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Kerouac Was a Comfort-Food Freak

Anneli Rufus | Posted 04.05.2012

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On the Road's food passages are fraught with longing and with Kerouac's knack for making the ordinary holy. Comfort food sustained him as he headed west.

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What 'Lost Works' Say About Their Authors

| Posted 03.23.2012

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By Daniel Lefferts for Bookish Beat legend Jack Kerouac's first book, “The Sea is My Brother,” hit stores this week. The novel, foraged from th...

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Ed Ruscha + Jack Kerouac = Poetic Wandering

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: On the Road, Ed Ruscha on the Road, Jack Kerouac, Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art, Ed Ruscha Denver, Ed Ruscha, Beat Poetry, Beat Generation, Surrealism, Slidepollajax, Allen Ginsberg, Denver Art Museum, Arts News

Ed Ruscha's paintings look simple, which is what makes their complexity so confounding. Like a short poem, you can enjoy a Ruscha work in a matter of ...

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From the Classroom to the Road

Caitlin Bailey | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Jack Kerouac on the Road, Beat Poetry, Beat Poets, Jack Kerouac, Beat Movement, Lancaster Country High School, High-School-English, Teen News

Today, nine high school seniors and two teachers packed up a van with almost no trunk space or leg room to begin a road trip from Pennsylvania to San Francisco and back. Welcome to The Beats Trip.

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Jack Kerouac Play To Make Its World Premiere

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.12.2012

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NEW YORK — Jack Kerouac's only full-length play will be staged for the first time this fall. Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the University of ...

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'On The Road' Trailer Released (VIDEO)

Posted 05.10.2012

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The cinematic adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" has a long, storied history. (Kerouac himself once asked Marlon Brando to buy the rights and ...

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'On the Road' Movie Trailer Promises an Adaptation Worthy of Kerouac

Jerry Cimino | Posted 05.09.2012

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The movie trailer for Walter Salles' film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel On The Road has just been released. It portends an extremely satisfying movie experience that literary fans have been anxiously awaiting for.

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I'm With Stupid: Scrolling Through the Songs Stuck in My Head

Todd Hartley | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Bengay, Tarzan, Jack Kerouac, Lady GaGa, Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Music, Baltimora, War Pigs, Coldplay, Benzedrine, Comedy News

If you have a song stuck in your head and want to get rid of it, the correct thing to do is exclaim, out loud in a fuzzy voice, "I am Iron Man!" This doesn't really work, but it does bug the hell out of people at my local library.

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'A Poem Is A Song. It Is In Your Heart And You Can Breathe It With Your Mouth.'

John R. Eperjesi | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Beat Generation, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, South Korea, Poetry, Gary Snyder, Culture News

Rainhat's gently staggering poems are spontaneous, lyrical, physical and immediate. When his grandmother, a farmer, tells him she doesn't understand poems, he explains to her, "A poem is a song. It is in your heart and you can breathe it with your mouth."

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Katy Perry: 'Firework' Inspired by Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'

Jerry Cimino | Posted 04.22.2012

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It sounds like On the Road made a pretty big impression on Katy Perry. It turns out her big hit, "Firework," was inspired by probably the single most famous line Kerouac ever wrote.

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WOW: Jack Kerouac's Amazing Letter To Marlon Brando

Posted 03.07.2012

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Two legendary rebels of the 1950s, one legendary opportunity missed. Jack Kerouac famously became a recluse, but it turns out he had movie star am...

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Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder

David Galenson | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Maya Lin, Clement Greenberg, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Jack Kerouac, One Hit Wonder Artists, Arts News

Frankenthaler might appear as a classic example of a one-hit wonder, joining the long list of important artists whose career was dominated by a single early work.

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Memorable Books Of 2011

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.02.2012

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Languishing on a beach chair in my winter outpost by a turquoise sea, I have only books on my mind. Here are a few that have pleased and provoked.

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10 Lost Novels The World Found Again

Posted 11.28.2011

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From Flavorwire: This past week, Jack Kerouac’s first-ever novel, "The Sea is My Brother," was finally published 40 years after his death. The no...

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Lost Jack Kerouac Novel Published

Posted 11.26.2011

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'The Sea is My Brother' offers new insight into the work of famed author Jack Kerouac, according to the book's editor who spoke with Metro U.K. "It...

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The Fastest Writers Ever Give You Advice for NaNoWriMo

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Nanowrimo, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, John Updike, Jack Kerouac, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Books News

From Flavorwire Yesterday marked the kickoff of National Novel-Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), the online project that challenges participants to wr...

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Yellowcard's Audio Exclusive, Chatting With Pegi Young, Van Hunt and Tommy Keene, Plus PopMarket and Girl Talk's Halloween Playlist

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Pegi Young, John Hampton, Alan Ginsberg, Prince, Los Lobos, The Ramones, Tommy Keene, Merle Haggard, Occupy Wall Street, Neil Young, Live Nation, Girl Talk, The Heartbreakers, Danny Whitten, Lincvolt, Crazy Horse, The Beatles, The Who, Don Dixon, Robert Pollard, David Bowie, Ben Keith, The Bridge School, Van Hunt, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Elliot Mazer, T-Bone Burnett, The Beats, Muddy Waters, Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk, The Stooges, The Keene Brothers, Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop, Roy Thomas Baker, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Nils Lofgren, Tom Petty, Es Sullivan, Chuck Berry, Rick James, Pearl Jam, Guided by Voices, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Berlin, Gillian Welch, The Sex Pistols, Brian Eno, Sly Stone, American Idol, Mathieu Bitton, Bruce Springsteen, The Replacements, Popmarket, Grin, Entertainment News

With Yellowcard's release of the acoustic version of their critically-acclaimed album When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes last week, it only proved that Yellowcard is indeed back.

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Literary References In The Simpsons

Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Tom Wolfe, Lisa Simpson, Jonathan Franzen, The Joy Luck Club, Jack Kerouac, The Atlantic, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Matt Groening, The Bell Jar, Amy Tan, The Simpsons, Lisa Simpson Book Club, Arts News

With the 23rd season of The Simpsons premiering on Sunday, America's longest-running sitcom is still going strong. Despite the perennial complaints ab...

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