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Movie Review: On the Road

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.17.2013 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

It's taken me a while to get around to it, but I wanted to offer a nod of approval for Walter Salles' On the Road, which came out in limited release at the end of 2012.

God Is Dead in Walter Salles' On the Road

John R. Eperjesi | Posted 03.16.2013 | Arts
John R. Eperjesi

In the "endless poem" of America, it is the spaces in between that mattered for Kerouac. Unfortunately, this film adaptation travels from one clichƩ to the next, skipping over many of the small moments that give the novel holy substance.

On the Road to North Beach

Zachary Ehren | Posted 03.10.2013 | San Francisco
Zachary Ehren

We sparked some tea and spit seeds onto the street, pulsing to the rhythm of the passing cars while feeling the ghosts of North Beach -- Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, and the rest of our long-gone friends -- falling further away.

How The 'Beat Generation' Got Away from Kerouac

Joyce_Johnson | Posted 12.11.2012 | Books
Joyce_Johnson

One of the many surprises tucked away in the vast Jack Kerouac Archive at the New York Public Library is the tiny pocket notebook in which Kerouac reacted in the fall of 1947 to a conversation he'd just had with his mother.

I Want My Cool Back

Amy Ruhlin | Posted 10.21.2012 | Fifty
Amy Ruhlin

I want her to know that I was not always a middle-aged mom with over-processed hair and fluctuating hormones. I want her to know that her Dad did not always have goofy dance moves.

A New Generation Debuts: Plurals

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 07.07.2012 | Business
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Evidence of the arrival of America's newest adaptive generation has surfaced in recent research, which is beginning to define how and why this latest Adaptive generation differs from the older Millennial Generation.

A Brief Renaissance: Holiday Lounge And Chinatown Fair Come Back To Life

Posted 04.12.2012 | New York

New York's "lost city bloggers" are astir this week, as two of the city's recently vanished cultural institutions are (kind of) getting a second chanc...

Ed Ruscha + Jack Kerouac = Poetic Wandering

Posted 03.22.2012 | Arts

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 ...

Jack Kerouac Play To Make Its World Premiere

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.12.2012 | Arts

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 ...

'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 | Home
John R. Eperjesi

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."

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

Jerry Cimino | Posted 04.22.2012 | San Francisco
Jerry Cimino

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.

Istanbul Publisher Faces Obscenity Trial For Releasing Book

AP | By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books

ISTANBUL -- Half a century after a U.S. obscenity trial, the work of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs is heading back to court, this time i...

Literary Classic Headed To Film

Posted 06.15.2011 | Entertainment

Fifty-plus years later, the Beat Generation is finally making its mark in film. A big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur," about the fame...

Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20)

Bill Bush | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Bill Bush

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Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Barbara Probst Solomon

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

Beat Writers Celebrated at London Film Festival with Mixed Results

Charles Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Charles Thomson

If you're not already a Burroughs aficionado, this documentary will teach you little about his work and probably not inspire you to seek it out, either. If you are already a Burroughs fan, chances are that you'll have heard it all before.

Kirsten Stewart Tapped For Walter Salles' Adaptation Of Kerouac's 'On The Road'

The Hollywood Reporter | Stuart Kemp | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

LONDON -- Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are walking the line for Walter Salles' long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Jack Keroua...

Allen Ginsberg Interview: Remembering The Iconic Poet Through His Photography And Words

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Thomas Gladysz

I interviewed Ginsberg on the subject of photography on the occasion of an gallery exhibit of his photographs in San Francisco in 1991.

Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jan Herman

He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.

It's Official: Nobody's Cool. (Kerouac Posthumously Blows It)

Dean Sluyter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Dean Sluyter

But cool as an outer pose, as an attitude you can cop, is dead. When the truly cool people show up in your life, you won't recognize them -- they'll be too cool for that.