Jack Kerouac

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Sing Any Good Books Lately?

Laurence Hughes | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: The Odyssey, Jack Kerouac, Frankenstein, Books, Bram Stoker, Sting, David Gray, Music, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Edgar Allen Poe, Classics Rock, Wuthering Heights, Ulysses, Jackson Browne, Elliot Murphy, Harold Robbins, Alan Parsons, Books News

The mission of my blog is to highlight popular songs that are based on, inspired by, or allude to books and authors -- "Books Shelved in Songs," as I say on the site.

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One Fast Move or I'm Gone: An Interview with Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Son Volt, The Dharma Bums, Aaron Espinoza, Big Sur, Patti Smith, Mark Spencer, Tom Waits, Benjamin Gibbard, Jay Farrar, Billy Gibbons, Death Cab for Cutie, Entertainment News, ZZ Top, Entertainment News

Although Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard create music from two different perspectives their blend on the soundtrack One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur syncs perfectly.

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HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, The Jacksons, Son Volt, Lawrence Ferenghetti, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Flight of the Conchords, John Mayer, Jay Farrar, Judy Collins, The Killers, Woodstock, Thom Yorke, David Bowie, The Jackson 5, Curt Worden, Sam Shepard, Jack Kerouac, Twilight, Kris Kristofferson, Big Sur, Patti Smith, The Twilight Sage: New Moon, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Benjamin Gibbard, The Doors, Kings of Convenience, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, Robert Francis, Murray Lerner, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, New Moon, Entertainment News

Leading off with Death Cab For Cutie's infectious "Meet Me On The Equinox," New Moonmay be after your traditional teen market's pop dollars, but they're also attempting to tap into 20-something angst.

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Mary Travers Passes, Vic Chesnutt on Music & Healthcare, plus Angel Taylor, BLK JKS, Susan Boyle, and more

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Peter, Paul & Mary helped mold the opinions of millions, persistently trying to open the minds of everyone who listened to their recordings or saw them perform live.

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Iraqi Refugees Make American Road Trip

Joseph Freeman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, On the Road, Iraq Refugees, Jack Kerouac, U.N., Road Trip, Displaced Iraqis, Iraq, Iraqi Student Project, Politics News

Iraqi students Fouad and Ahmed feel thrilled to traverse the unknown landscape of an enormous country, a place whose people and policies have had such an impact on their unlikely fates.

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Would Allen Ginsberg Like Twitter?

Marissa Moss | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Creativity, Twitter, Jack Kerouac, Social Networking, Writing, Maureen Dowd, Media, Facebook, Music, Allen Ginsberg, Tweets, Poetry, Charlie Parker, Technology, Huffington Post, Blogging, Media News

First thought, best thought. Improvisational jazz, poetry slams and music jams, Ginsberg, Kerouac. First thought, best thought. Holy hell. Is that Twitter?

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

Dean Sluyter | Posted 06.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Baseball, James Dean, Nirvana, Jack Kerouac, Cool, Lester Young, Prez, Beats, Beatniks, Hipsters, Hippies, Buddha, Miles Davis, Jazz, Fantasy Baseball, Charlie Parker, Beat Generation, Meditation, Marlon Brando, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Dan Brown, Fashion, Style News

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.

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Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules

Matthew Kohut | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charlie Haden, John Coltrane, Jazz, Jack Kerouac, Dave Brubeck, Arts, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Music, Miles Davis, Culture, Entertainment News

How does a music festival remain edgy and relevant? The British fest Meltdown 09 made news recently by tapping Ornette Coleman as director of this year's event.

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That Student-Teacher Thing

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Student-Teacher Relationship, Elementary School, Goodbye Columbus, Bernard Malamud, Test Scores, Education, Merit Pay, Public School, High School, Middle School, I.B. Singer, Teachers, Catcher in the Rye, Philip Roth, Living News

What I remember most about Ms. Fitzgerald's class is that when I wasn't staring at the clock, I was deciding which of my body parts to rip off and hand her in protest.

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Hidden Burroughs-Kerouac Novel Surfaces; So Does 'the Lost Art of Ah Pook' by Malcolm Mc Neill

Jan Herman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Beats, Ah Pook, Jack Kerouac, Burroughs Kerouac Collaboration, Jed Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Burroughs Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Mcneill, Media News

This month provides a happy occasion for legions of Jack Kerouac fans, to say nothing of William S. Burroughs cultists, who always seem eager for new revelations about both writers' works.

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Live And Unscrolled: The Original "On The Road" Manuscript At Columbia College

Columbia College Chicago | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: On the Road, Kerouac Original Scroll, Jack Kerouac, Kerouac Original Manuscript, Original on the Road Scroll, On the Road Original Manuscript, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago News

Jack Kerouac's iconic manuscript scroll of On the Road is the centerpiece of a college-wide initiative investigating the disparate group of poets, art...

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