Tag: Jack Kerouac

  • Kerouac’s ‘Big Sur’ Now a Movie

    When asked about the novels of Jack Kerouac Truman Capote quipped: “That’s not writing, it’s typing.” His famed comment underscores Kerouac’s mixed reputation as a writer, both then and now. Kerouac’s output was certainly uneven, but his ambition for the novel and his vision for a new American prose was both genuine and compelling; Kerouac’s…

  • Movie Trailer For Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’

    On the road – Official trailer – (HD 1080p) by MK2diffusion William Burroughs got it right when he wrote Jack Kerouac “opened a million coffee shops and sold a million pairs of Levis.” Kerouac and his novel On The Road primed the culture for the Beats and later the ascension of the hippies and the 1960s counterculture. The actual literary influence of…

  • Top Five Books for Recluses

    If there is one group of people who understood the impulse to retire from society now and again—it would be readers and writers. If for any reason you don’t have time to check into a hermitage for three months, here are a five books that will provide a few hours of reclusive relief. 1. Walden…

  • The Five Most Neglected Novels of the 20th Century

    The first half of the 20th century is littered with so many classic works of fiction that one would need two lifetimes to both read and re-read all the major works of those first five decades, let alone explore the minor and underappreciated novels of the period. All of the novels in my list were published after…