kerouac

  • The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel

    The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel

    Luke B. Goebel talks about his experimental novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, his dark days in San Francisco, hands as blood-bags, and literary Ouija boards.

  • Ghost Stories with Neil Gaiman

    Vulture spent time with Neil Gaiman perusing the special collections of the New York Public Library, which includes early drafts of Frankenstein, engravings from William Blake, and Jack Kerouac’s blood stains.

  • Little Jack’s Love Letters

    I shall worship her with quiet dignity. I shall draw her attention to me by exploits, success, and possibly a small measure of fame,” wrote a young, romantically inclined Jack Kerouac to a friend in one of a cache of…

  • Scott Onak: The Last Book I Loved, Satori in Paris

    I didn’t need any books: I was finishing up grad school in Idaho and moving to—well—that wasn’t quite known to me.  But here was a building on the Latah County Fairgrounds full of books, and here was Satori in Paris…

  • Kerouac: American-French-Latino?

    This account of a New York colloquium designed to highlight Jack Kerouac’s Québéqois roots has an odd turn at the end, in which the reporter calls attention to the fact that the confab was part of a series on Latino…

  • Morning Coffee

    Japanese shipyard gone feral. We are pretty sure this is what the next Pixar movie is going to be about. (via Metafilter) Kerouac as fantasy baseball enthusiast. From New Scientist, half of all raindrops fall faster than thought possible. I…

  • Kerouac’s lost French works

    The Words without Borders blog has a fascinating post on two novellas by Jack Kerouac in his native French, works that were written in the early 1950s and which reflect his interest in Proust, Balzac and the French literary tradition.…

  • Kerouac Joins Crew of Novelists

    Publishers Marketplace reports that Harpers has agreed to publish “The Sea is My Brother,” a “lost” novel by Jack Kerouac, written in 1942 and based on his experiences in the Merchant Marine. According to the book “Desolate Angel” by Dennis…