Paul Maher Jr. is the author of A Vast Glowing Empty Page: The Life and Writings of Jack Kerouac, All Things Shining: An Oral History of the Films of Terrence Malick, Isolated Wanderer: A Maxwell Bodenheim Reader, Miles On Miles: Interviews & Encounters with Miles Davis, Tom Waits On Tom Waits, and Empty Phantoms: Interviews & Encounters with Jack Kerouac.

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KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME

Paul Maher, Jr·March 10, 2022

After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent...

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MILES DAVIS: A CONCERTO OF CONVERSATION WITH DAVID AMRAM

Paul Maher, Jr·November 21, 2019

The public saw one Miles Davis (1926-1991) but his fellow musicians caught rare glimpses of the real person....

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WHEN JACK KEROUAC HAD HIS CRACK-UP

Paul Maher, Jr·October 8, 2019

Spiraling down a silo of despair and drunkenness in the wake of his On The Road/Dharma Bums celebrity...

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THE MYSTERIOUS ROAD TO BADLANDS: TERRENCE MALICK’S EARLY YEARS

Paul Maher, Jr·September 23, 2019

Terrence Malick’s emergence as a major American film director (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) followed...

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WHEN JACK (KEROUAC) MET MAX (BODENHEIM)

Paul Maher, Jr·September 2, 2019

When the young Beat novelist (Kerouac) met the old bohemian poet (Bodenheim) in 1951, they were headed in...

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