Blogs about: Beat Generation
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Bow to the Hallucinatory
Michael Bowen (1937) died at the age of 71 despite his extreme life choices. He was an American artist and a very important character of the Beat Generation. Bowen influenced the legendary “Human Be-I… more →
SlummingItDown
William Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Article #1: The life of Burroughs & the upcoming Beat Generation (1914-1959)
wrote 10 hours ago: The Beat Generation is a well-known group of American writers whose success increased in later 1950s … more →
Zero Gravity
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wrote 18 hours ago: Ruffled hair orbit the fingers twisting them, eyes stand still in a room full of nothing, the mind r … more →
And the Beat Goes On: North Beach
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wrote 1 day ago: Many who have read my pieces on San Francisco will have concluded that Haight-Ashbury is my spiritua … more →
Friday's Featured Beat: Jack Kerouac!
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wrote 4 days ago: Name: Jack Kerouac Born: March 12, 1922 (Lowell, MA) Died: October 21, 1969 (St. Petersburg, F … more →
Film Review: Pull My Daisy + Shadows
wrote 5 days ago: Review of Robert Frank & Afred Leslie’s ‘Pull My Daisy’ & John Cass … more →
How to write, by Jack Kerouac
wrote 5 days ago: I know it might sound cliched, and I know how fashionable ‘On The Road’ is at the moment, but I am, … more →
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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wrote 6 days ago: 5 of 5 stars Tristessa. What a beautiful name – you can’t say it aloud wwithout feeling … more →
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” (Groucho Marx)
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wrote 6 days ago: Unlike Groucho Marx, I quite like television. I say this in the full acknowledgement that at least … more →
Blame Parents for Millennials Acting Entitled: Helicopter Parents Have Trophy Kids Who End Up Boomerang Kids
wrote 6 days ago: Remember my post from last July “Hipsters Hate Driving”? It was inspired by the Reuters report “Amer … more →
For John
wrote 6 days ago: Paul, a dear friend of mine, a Boston College High School and Boston College classmate of John Wiene … more →
Deep into the elegy (Dreamers)
wrote 1 week ago: 1. It was the younger days when my daughter would’ve pressed her cheek against my cheek. This … more →
Jon Blumb, Portrait of William S. Burroughs
wrote 1 week ago: Jon Blumb born 1956, Peoria, Illinois Heading for Home, Wakarusa Flats, Kansas, March 4, 1994, 1994 … more →
Medina Beat
wrote 1 week ago: Photo by Justin Schuster, Cairo “The medina is a city of ancient doors. Some, like this one, are pa … more →
City Lights Turns 60!
wrote 1 week ago: City Lights, located at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Broadway in San Francisco’s famed No … more →
Buy two, get one free ..
wrote 1 week ago: I entered a mall and kept on walking. Spotted an escalator on the other side and walked towards it. … more →
What Jack Kerouac Says
wrote 1 week ago: “Beliefs and Techniques for Modern Prose” Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pag … more →
Retracing Jack Kerouac Mentions Me
wrote 1 week ago: The other day I mentioned how J. Haeske and I have been talking about the correlation between Jack K … more →
On the Road – Unexpectedly Inspirational
wrote 1 week ago: A few years ago, I made my first road trip to Las Vegas. I remember the thrill of driving through un … more →
Country style
wrote 1 week ago: I’ve always been fascinated by country style, especially by placing it in the Americas of the … more →
