In with the underdogs Apr 19, 2008
He sees On The Road as a story of the loss of American innocence, rather than merely the defining novel of the Beat Generation. "It's set in 1948, which we often forget because it wasn't published until 1957. It's a postwar novel.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
American Artist Alice Neel Apr 12, 2008
Neel can also be seen in the 1959 Beat Generation film Pull My Daisy, and in 2007, her grandson Andrew Neel s documentary about his artist grandmother made its debut to introduce the vision and memory of Alice to the 21st century. Sources. (Suite101.com)
* Study finds Obama related to Brad Pitt and Clinton to Jolie Mar 27, 2008
The New England Historic Genealogical Society traced the family trees of the three major US presidential candidates, also revealing Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's ties to pop icon Madonna and Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac. And while Obama and Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt are ninth cousins who share a relative who died in 1769, Clinton is a ninth cousin twice removed of Pitt's partner, Angelina Jolie, sharing a common ancestor who died in 1718. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Poets visit schools; to slam Buena on Friday Mar 27, 2008
Phillips was asked if there are comparisons to On the Road author Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation of the 1950s and early 1960s. The Beat movement was so powerful, Phillips said. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
The Great Gatsby Mar 22, 2008
By 1960, after the Beat Generation had risen to notoriety, but before the great disillusionment of Vietnam, it was Scribner's top seller. Related Articles. (Globe and Mail)
Jazz night at KFAC Feb 26, 2008
group gave the audience Beat Generation renditions of numbers once associated with Cyndi Lauper, Bobby Gentry, John Lennon and Paul McCartney and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Vocalist Jeni Fleming has a knack for producing each note separately, independently and with perfection. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Rechy struggled to be true to himself in a straight, white world Feb 18, 2008
Seen as part of the Beat Generation canon, the novel, translated into numerous languages, contributed to the atmosphere of experimentation - sexual and literary - in vogue at the time. It was followed by other controversial books by Rechy, among them "Numbers" and "The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
11 Things: Neal Cassady Feb 8, 2008
They never intended to create the beat generation, hippies or the anti-war movement, but I'm glad for the seeds they planted. 5. (San Francisco Chronicle)
CostaLiving: Cell phone novels generate false ring tones Jan 24, 2008
Wouldn t Truman Capote have had fun with this new development since he was the one who told Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac that Kerouac wasn t writing, he was merely typing. Rin s typing is not even really typing, it s thumbing. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Obituary: Sargon Boulus Jan 18, 2008
Iraqi poet who joined the Beat generation ... In San Francisco, he became part of the Beat generation. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
An intellectual insider, forever on the outside Jan 3, 2008
Throughout the 1950s Kazin felt himself adrift, a self-described Emersonian, aflame with "humanistic moral passion," confronting the inward-looking, alienated fiction of the cold war and the Beat Generation. He disliked experimental writing. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
On the road to greatness Dec 29, 2007
There also are photos and letters from the key members of the so-called "Beat Generation," a term Kerouac coined. But for this sportswriter, the highlight was learning of Kerouac's colorful baseball world and adding him to the list of talented writers whose love of the game shines through in their work - authors such as John Updike and Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Michael Chabon. (AZCentral -- Sports)
Grey Celebrates Beat Generation Dec 28, 2007
LOS ANGELES WPP Group's Grey has launched its first campaign for the Beat Museum, which recently relocated to the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. The integrated campaign includes bus shelter (with life-size photos of Beat heroes), poster and print ads as well as Web site development of thebeatmuseum. (AdWeek)
Non-Striking Writers Form Attention-Getting Blog Site Dec 7, 2007
The Beat Generation might never have had success if they hadnt formed a cohesive group. They needed members like Allen Ginsberg pounding on the doors of publishing companies, Knight said. (KERO 23, CA)
Boomer class Dec 4, 2007
Jack Newfield, "The Beat Generation and the Un-Generation" from A Prophetic Minority (1966). Newsweek, "What Vietnam Did to Us," 1981. (USA Today -- News)
Painting gets a broader brush in L.A. Dec 4, 2007
Not until the second half of the '50s did the primary achievements of such marvelous Beat Generation assemblage artists as Wallace Berman and Edward Kienholz appear. Yet the dawn of important L.A. art is regularly misrepresented as emerging in their great sculptures. (Los Angeles Times)
IN MY LIBRARY Dec 2, 2007
Fashion expert Stacy London usually tells people their shoes don't go with that dress, to throw out that baggy sweatshirt, to tailor that suit. As host of TLC's What Not to. (New York Post -- Opinions)
'The Naked and The Dead' Author Norman Mailer Dead at... Nov 12, 2007
Buoyed by instant literary celebrity, Mailer embraced the early 1950s counterculture defining "hip" in his essay "The White Negro," allying himself with Beat Generation gurus Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and writing social and political commentary for the leftist Village Voice, which he helped found. He also churned out two more novels, "Barbary Shore" (1951) and "Deer Park" (1955), neither embraced kindly by readers or critics. (Fox News)
Grateful Dead's longtime publicist to speak at UMass symposium Nov 11, 2007
His dissertation about Jack Kerouac was published in 1979 as "Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America.". McNally, who delivers the keynote address Friday at UMass-Amherst's three-day Grateful Dead symposium, "Unbroken Chain," called recently to chat about the band's legacy, the fans' devotion, and what Garcia would think of all the hoopla. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Fred McDarrah, 81; Village Voice photographer Nov 9, 2007
In his impressive career, McDarrah captured images of Beat generation writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and photographed Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer and Bob Dylan ... He also published numerous books of his photography, including "Anarchy, Protest and Rebellion: And the Counterculture That Changed America" and "Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album.". (Los Angeles Times)
'Road' Gets On The Show Nov 7, 2007
November 7, 2007 -- IT'S the Dead Sea Scroll of the Beat Generation: the 119-foot-long sheet of paper on which Jack Kerouac - during a highly caffeinated three weeks in 1951 - typed his ode to the road: "On the Road.". So imagine the horror the other day at the New York Public Library when, as the yellowed scroll was being gently unspooled, there came a loud ripping sound. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
PCCUA Book Club to present poetry review of Beat Generation Nov 7, 2007
Many claim the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road as the beginning of the Beat generation. The Beatniks disregarded the materialistic fast lane life of the 1950's. (Helena Daily World, AR)
Hip-hop is one trend he isn't going to Buck Oct 30, 2007
"From there, I started thinking about rock `n' roll really breaking into the mainstream and the Beat generation and Bettie Page and all this kind of craziness that was going on. When I think `50s, I always think ultraconservative times. "But then I started figuring all these people, all these figures that were around, had a lot in common. Everybody started thinking the same way: `This is boring. (Toronto Star)
Kerouac took love of baseball to Denver Oct 27, 2007
10/26/2007 10:30 AM ET Kerouac, baseball and Denver Beat Generation icon spoke of love of game during visit By Owen Perkins / Special to MLB.com ... Known as a founding father of the Beat generation, Kerouac's passion for the national pastime is less known, even by the game's greatest historians and celebrants. (MLB.com -- Colorado Rockies)
CCSU professor publishes book on NYC slums Oct 22, 2007
In his American Realism and Naturalism class, he teaches Walt Whitman, Eugene O'Neill and Wallace Thurman, as well as the Beat Generation writers, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Dowling says his next book will be a series of essays on O'Neill. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Jay DeFeo's graceful fascination with form Oct 11, 2007
Jay DeFeo, a San Francisco artist of the Beat Generation, is known for one monumental painting, "The Rose," which she painted and repainted from 1958 to 1966. Close to 11 feet tall by 8 feet wide, the painting, now owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, carries more than a ton of white and gray pigment, built into a pattern of radiating lines that look carved out of a rock face. (Boston Globe)
Steven Winn: On the waves Sputnik I continues to make 50 years later Oct 4, 2007
The little silver ball's legacies include such artifacts as "The Jetsons" and lunar-looking living room chairs, bomb shelters and starburst chandeliers, Stanley Kubrick's "2001" and Chronicle columnist Herb Caen's coinage of "beatnik," a conflation of Sputnik and the freshly christened Beat Generation (Jack Kerouac's iconic novel "On the Road" had been published a month before the launch). Commentators of the period compared Sputnik, apparently without irony, to Pearl Harbor, Columbus' discovery... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The beeping ball that launched the Space Age Oct 4, 2007
(Sputnik's instant notoriety in American popular culture inspired San Francisco Chronicle writer Herb Caen to coin the term "beatnik" in an article on the Beat Generation less than a year later. . (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
ASK Me: Famed accordion player resides in Vegas Oct 1, 2007
He performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" more than 40 times and appeared in 1950s and '60s movies, including "The Beat Generation" in 1959. Contino was the subject of "Dick Contino's Blues," a novella by James Ellroy. (Fresno Bee)
* Open road still drives American spirit Sep 19, 2007
A 1962 photo of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. Nearly 40 years after his death, and 50 years after the release of his most famous novel, On the Road, pictured here, Kerouac remains an author who inspires both young and old. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Kamikaze pilots, Beats and Hells Angels all part of meth crisis history Sep 9, 2007
The mouse cage Methamphetamine's violent effects were no surprise to Smith, who began his research into methamphetamine after hearing reports of the violent effects of diet-pill abuse in the so-called bohemian culture or Beat Generation ... He called it alpha-phenyl-ethyimine, now better known as amphetamine, a drug that would see the nation through the Depression, energize troops in World War II, fuel the imagination of the Beat Generation and keep cross-country truckers on the road ... An... (North County Times)
Really, you might not know Jack Sep 6, 2007
Fifty years ago today, Jack Kerouac cracked the American consciousness with "On the Road." He was crowned the king of the Beat Generation. From there it was a short hip hop to the hippie culture. (Chicago Tribune)
Columbus Street Sep 6, 2007
STREET DATE / Columbus Avenue, San Francisco (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Gossip: Jazzmouth '08 has its headliner Sep 6, 2007
"That's the thing that's unbelievable! ...; Jazz and poetry! Here's this incredible film with a soundtrack by Ponty (an early jazz/rock artist), ...; and narration by a hero of the beat generation. ...; It's another opportunity to see, on a large screen, a very, very rare and great film." Movie night will include a performance by the Seacoast All Star Big Band playing jazz rock, "(today known as fusion)" and readings of Burroughs work. "It's great ...; but it's also still nerve-racking. We still... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
People still taking to the 'Road' with Kerouac Sep 5, 2007
Kerouac coined "Beat Generation" term; Bob Dylan, Doors among "Road" fans ... He was accepted by Columbia University on a scholarship and in New York eventually met Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and assorted other writers and hustlers who formed the core of the "Beat Generation," so named by Kerouac with suggestions both mystical ("beatific") and musical ("on the beat"). (CNN -- Travel)
Road warrior: Kerouac is relevant to modern-day vagabonds Sep 5, 2007
The novel helped kick-start the "Beat Generation," the bohemian prototype for much of the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. Hippies would be unimaginable without beatniks, and beatniks would be unimaginable without the wise-cracking, jazz-loving anti-establishment heroes of "On the Road.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Minor Characters Sep 3, 2007
The Other Side of The Beat Generation ... Millstein declared Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, which was seeking kicks and escape from convention ... Alongside nearly every man who played a significant role in the Beat Generation was a woman who acted as a muse or means of financial support, mother to children, traveling companion, wife or friend. (Suite101.com)
Kerouac still inspires young and old Sep 3, 2007
" Kerouac's novel takes readers all over the country, from New York City and New Orleans to Chicago and Denver and San Francisco, all stops on the wild and fictionalized adventures of Kerouac and buddy Neal Cassady, renamed and beloved as Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty. The literary establishment, with some dissenters, welcomes him. "On the Road" is widely taught and has officially been placed in the canon by the Library of America, which just released a bound edition of "On the Road," "The... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Read More... Sep 3, 2007
This year, marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's seminal Beat Generation novel "On the Road," will see a veritable deluge of books by and about Kerouac, including the complete manuscript "scroll" edition of "On the Road" from Viking Penguin, the main publisher of the Beats. Kerouac's breakthrough manuscript, the very genesis of "spontaneous bop prosody," typed nonstop on a continuous 120-foot roll of taped-together art paper, is now touring the country like a holy relic -... (Disinformation)
On the Road, and Jack Kerouac, still inspire young and old Sep 2, 2007
He was accepted by Columbia University on a scholarship and in New York eventually met Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and assorted other writers and hustlers who formed the core of the "Beat Generation," so named by Kerouac with suggestions both mystical ("beatific") and musical ("on the beat"). His work had appeared in school publications since the late 1930s, and his first novel, "The Town and City," was published in 1950, an autobiographical, Wolfe-influenced story set in New York and... (North County Times)
Queens does know Jack: Author's memory honored Aug 31, 2007
The Central Queens Historical Association is conducting "The Essential Jack Kerouac Tour" in the borough Saturday in a tribute to the author and onetime Queens resident on the 50th anniversary of the publishing of "On the Road," the Kerouac novel that spawned the Beat Generation. "We're pointing out that Kerouac had a life in Queens," said Jeff Gottlieb, the president of the association. (Astoria Times, NY)
On the Road again| Aug 25, 2007
When 'On The Road' came out in 1957, Jack Kerouac became the voice of the Beat Generation almost overnight ... Beat generation figures such as poet Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and writer William S. Burroughs appear in the novel under their real names instead of their familiar pseudonyms of Carlo Marx, Dean Moriarty and Old Bull Lee. (iAfrica.com)
Kerouac's legacy fading in Queens Aug 24, 2007
"During those years, he wrote his first novel, The Town And The City (1950) and planned On The Road (1957), his seminal novel that would define the Beat Generation.". But the 50th anniversary has been mentioned in the national media, with several articles appearing in The New York Times, including a book review and a comparison of the original manuscript and the published copy. (Bayside Times, NY)
Letters to the Editor: August 23 Aug 23, 2007
Quite frankly, what we're dealing with is the refuse of the late 50's with the "beat generation" of the Jack Kerouac-types where alcohol was king and stream of consciousness thinking and writing was chic among the so-called intellectual elite of New York and California. This was quickly followed by the 60's hippie generation of the unwashed where the call to arms was "if it feels good, do it," and "make love, not war," and where college professors, mostly secular-progressive nerdy types who,... (Pensacola News Journal)
Mapping the route to 'On the Road' Aug 19, 2007
Writing in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1954, Cowley first credited Kerouac with the Beat Generation label, adding "his long unpublished narrative, 'On the Road,' is the best record of their lives." ... " In 1955, Cowley wrote to the writer: " 'On the Road' -- I think that's the right title for the book, not 'The Beat Generation. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Jack Kerouac, unadulterated Aug 18, 2007
The biggest immediate difference between the first draft and the finished product, though, is that while we know "On the Road" as a novel - the great novel of the Beat Generation - the scroll is essentially nonfiction, a memoir that uses real names and is far less self-consciously literary. It is a dazzling piece of writing for all of its rough edges, and, stripped of affectations that in the novel can sometimes verge on bathos, as well as of gratuitous punctuation supplied by editors more... (International Herald Tribune)
* 'On the Road' turns 50 Aug 16, 2007
Both were cultural touchstones: Peyton Place as a precursor of the modern soap opera and On the Road as a clarion call for the Beat generation and, later, as an underground bible of the 1960s and 1970s. Today, Peyton Place is mostly regarded as a historical curiosity, but On the Road, celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, still has a vibrant life on college English course syllabuses and high school summer reading lists, and in young travelers' backpacks. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Gap's Fisher's proposal would add to S.F.'s museum galaxy Aug 9, 2007
-- The Beat Museum, which opened in 2006, is devoted to a collection of books, manuscripts and ephemera related to Jack Kerouac, his associates and the Beat generation. -- The Museum of the African Diaspora, which opened in 2005, explores the stories of people of African descent, with exhibitions coupling art, culture and technology. (San Francisco Chronicle)
America's first king of the road Aug 5, 2007
Fifty years ago Jack Kerouac's dazzling novel On the Road became the blueprint for the Beat generation and shaped America's youth culture for decades ... Overnight, the Beat generation had gone overground, and the man who did most to define it suddenly found that his book was now defining him ... He was hurt by the many negative reviews of the book, and by the parodies of the Beat generation that suddenly started appearing on mainstream televison chat shows. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Here There, Now Then Aug 4, 2007
Dylan's influences were Woody Guthrie and the poetry of the Beat Generation. Shearston is unashamedly Australian. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Today in History August 2 Aug 2, 2007
Ten years ago: Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, the godfather of the Beat generation, died in Kansas City, Mo. at age 83. (MSNBC -- Race)
New DVDs: Premonition, Hills Have Eyes 2 Jul 17, 2007
The Life and Times of Allen GinsburgThe man who wrote the Beat Generation epic poem Howl is the subject of this in-depth portrait from director Jerry Aronson, who spent 25 years gathering interviews and footage of Ginsberg, his associates and his admirers. The film follows Ginsberg, who died in 1997, from his rise to literary fame during the beat movement through his counterculture and political activism, his spiritual quests, his photography work and other varied preoccupations and... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Devotees celebrate 50th anniversary of Kerouac's 'On the Road' with marathon reading Jul 2, 2007
The stream-of-consciousness novel helped generate the Beat Generation. Daily American Discussions. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
On the Road honored with marathon reading Jul 2, 2007
The stream-of-consciousness novel helped generate the Beat Generation. 2007 The Associated Press. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Found: Davina McCall's tragic mum Jun 25, 2007
" Listening to her woes, one can't help feeling sorry for her. However, talking to other members of Davina McCall's extraordinarily dysfunctional extended family in South Africa, this sympathy begins to seem misplaced. Florence was the product of an affluent French family - her father was a reputable doctor. Scroll down for more... In her colourful reminiscences, she remember playing at a chateau owned by her grandfather and says he set up Paris's first mobile police unit - nicknamed the Tiger... (Daily Mail)
50 all-time teenage classics Jun 17, 2007
The Beat Generation, Bob McFadden and Dor (1960) ... From the lost generation to the beat generation was not too big a step: a term coined by the junkie hustler Herbert Huncke, 'I'm beat' meant 'beaten ... The beat generation became national news after Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
An insider's look at San Francisco Jun 17, 2007
Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Cafe: Frothy cappuccino and legendary focaccia sandwiches served in a wedge of a cafe in North Beach, the Italian neighborhood that was home to the 1950s Beat Generation. Inexpensive. (Chicago Tribune)
The long and winding 'Road' Jun 15, 2007
Rejected at first, an edited version of "On the Road" came out in 1957, a seminal work of the Beat generation. Kerouac became famous -- and tortured, unable to live up to the spirited ideals embodied in his book. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Room for enlightenment Jun 10, 2007
The copy doesn't mention that the small room with a single window just off the kitchen was the birthplace of Jack Kerouac, whose 1957 novel, "On The Road," defined what came to be known as "the Beat generation.". The ad makes no allusion to the fact that Lowell is celebrating its native son this year on the 50th anniversary of the publication of "On The Road," the tale of an alcohol-fueled, coast-to-coast odyssey down the highways and back roads of America in search of "enlightenment," or maybe... (Boston Globe)
Thursday Back in time 05-31-2007 Jun 1, 2007
That was the lead of a story about the beat generation and police clashing in a New York park. The Plainview Board of Education voted to limit instruction in drivers education during the summer school of 1967 to students who will have attained their 15th birthday on or before July 15. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
WI-FI ON THE WESTSIDE:Connecting While On The Go At Your Hotspot’ Office By Jan Marlyn Reesman May 27, 2007
And in San Francisco, writers and poets of the Beat Generation, such as Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, wrote in the cafes of North Beach. Paying for office space and Internet access by buying coffee and muffins not bad. (Brentwood Media Group, CA)
Technology bringing poetry back to the forefront of literature May 27, 2007
And after decades of derision, it's making an impressive comeback. From classic sonnets to bawdy limericks, poetry has always had a place in literary society and popular culture. (Conroe Courier, TX)
SUMMER OF LOVE 40 YEARS LATER Goodbye innocence, hello hippies! May 22, 2007
SUMMER OF LOVE 40 YEARS LATER / Goodbye innocence, hello hippies. The party starts as rock 'n' roll ethos, LSD inspire beatniks and beckon an influx of free spirits to San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A FUNK QUEEN STEPS OUT OF THE SHADOWS May 19, 2007
" Born Betty Mabry in Durham, N.C., Davis was the first child of an Army serviceman and a homemaker. In a rare phone interview from her home outside Pittsburgh -- she hasn't done face-to-face interviews in decades -- she says that she was shaped indelibly by her grandmother's and mother's record collections, which featured bluesmen like Muddy Waters, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. "No jazz," she says. She invented her own songs, humming out parts to different instruments as if she were already... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Beavers to immortalize a Bob L. Head May 18, 2007
The Lowell Spinners once offered fans a bobblehead of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, a Lowell native. Fan voting for the best Bob L. Head opened Wednesday on the Beavers' Web site, www. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR -- Sports)
