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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Jack kerouac - Caught on Camera

The apple pie (alongside mom, of course) became the symbolic food of a nation

Flaky, golden crust

The Independent UK

A 120-foot burst of genius: Jack Kerouac’s 'On the Road' scroll and its wild afterlife

In the spring of 1951, Jack Kerouac's muse struck hard, leading him to create a full-length manuscript for “On the Road” in just three weeks

The Independent UK

Beat legend, ‘boy lover’: how should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy?

As a series of star-studded events celebrates Ginsberg’s centennial, the keeper of his estate weighs the genius poetry – and provocative views – of the iconic writer

The Guardian - US

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Zach Bryan donates Jack Kerouac’s On The Road scroll to museum after $12m auction

Last year, the country music star bought a church in Lowell, Massachusetts, that will become the Jack Kerouac Center

The Independent UK

Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend Allen Ginsberg dubbed “spontaneous bop prosody”.

The Conversation

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

The Guardian - UK

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas

When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in its Dewey decimal system-assigned location.

The Conversation

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Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!

Great new music you need to hear from Gwenno, Wytch Hazel, Rocking Horse Music Club, Schrodinger and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

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Zach Bryan buys church in memory of literary icon after massive $350 million deal

The country music star recently sold his publishing catalog and signed a new deal with Warner Records

The Independent UK

The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

The Independent UK

‘His soulful best’: Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist writings to be published for the first time

Fifty years after his death, On the Road author’s spiritual reflections show him in a whole new light

The Guardian - UK

“Sometimes the ‘you’ in my songs is me talking to me. Other times I can be talking to somebody else. It’s up to you to figure out who’s who”: The epic story of Bob Dylan’s holy trinity of mystical, magical mid-60s albums

How Bob Dylan changed the course of music forever with Bringing It Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde

Louder

30 iconic bars of New York City immortalized in new photography book

Photography powerhouses James and Karla Murray continue to document New York, this time celebrating 30 iconic watering holes

Digital Camera World

Poetry fan Matt Peat hoping Wigan go with the flow at Wembley

Peat is willing to implement fresh ideas with the Warriors.

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Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel 'The Alienist,' dies at 68

Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat Masha, has died

The Guardian - AU

For 30 years I saw my kidnapping as character-building – until I finally faced what happened to me

As a gen X feminist who survived and ignored a violent assault in the 80s, I didn’t identify as a victim – but #MeToo gave me a crucial new perspective

Evening Standard

Sputnik Sweetheart at the Arcola Theatre review: a scrappy and coolly sexy take on Murakami's cult classic

This story of loneliness, desire and longing is strange, beguiling and surprisingly warm

The Conversation

Guide to the classics: Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey – a dense, strange journey through addiction

Drugs are nothing new. As researchers Russil Durrant and Jo Thakker tell us in their 2003 book Substance Use Abuse, drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, opium and cannabis have been used for thousands of years throughout the world. They also show we have known about addiction for a long time…

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Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102

The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died

The Conversation

Luke Carman, the circle of life, and the world as an ecstatic masterpiece

It’s one of those circle of life kind of things, the antagonist Hopper says in Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, explaining how his gang of marauding grasshoppers exploit the ants with a dry cynicism that Luke Carman might appreciate. It wasn’t until I reached the final story in Carman’s collection An…

Evening Standard

Florida Keys: the eco way to do a great American road trip

When Jack Kerouac went On the Road he chose a gas-guzzling 5-litre Hudson. Hunter S Thompson’s ‘Red Shark’ Chevrolet in ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ sported a thirsty 6-litre V8, just like Thelma and Louise’s emission-belching Ford Thunderbird.

The Conversation

It's not all nomadland: how #vanlife made mobile living a middle-class aspiration

Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern.

The Guardian - UK

Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years

The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men

The Independent UK

Jack Kerouac at 100: How a heady cocktail of trauma, faith and rotgut wine made a literary legend

A century after the ‘On The Road’ author’s birth, Kerouac’s close friend and collaborator David Amram talks to Kevin E G Perry about their ‘stoned-out’ parties, his misunderstood Catholic faith and his work’s enduring relevance

The Guardian - UK

The road well travelled: 100 years of Jack Kerouac

Nature-loving mystic or proto-dudebro? Untameable free spirit or reclusive mama’s boy? On the centenary of his birth, it is time to look past the icon at the ‘bleeding ball of contradictions’ behind it

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