Spiraling down a silo of despair and drunkenness in the wake of his On The Road/Dharma Bums celebrity as ‘king of the Beats’, Jack Kerouac longed for a safe hav...
Terrence Malick’s emergence as a major American film director (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) followed a trajectory as unlikely as any in cinema h...
When the young Beat novelist (Kerouac) met the old bohemian poet (Bodenheim) in 1951, they were headed in opposite directions. Jack Kerouac was just lighting hi...
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. He is currently in production on a film based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau to be executive produced by Terrence Malic
