KEROUAC: ON THE VERGE OF FAME
After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent...
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DOCTOR SAX AND THE GREAT WORLD SNAKE: KEROUAC’S FORGOTTEN OPUS
Written in Mexico in 1952 but not published until 1959, Dr. Sax is Jack Kerouac’s most enigmatic novel....
ALENE LEE: THE HEART OF A SUBTERRANEAN
Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian...
JACK KEROUAC AT 100: HIS MAGICAL JUKEBOX
Music was the food that fueled Jack Kerouac’s soul, drove his writing and brought him his rare moments...
FILMMAKER GUS VAN SANT ‘NEVER LEFT THE BEAT INFLUENCE’
As an aspiring teenage artist, Gus Van Sant had his head turned by the writing of Jack Kerouac...
DAVID AMRAM: ON KEROUAC, GINSBERG, MINGUS, SPIRIT AND FAMILY
Composer David Amram, now 90, has worked with some of the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins,...
BEAT SURRENDER: RECLAIMING THE LEGACY OF LUCIEN CARR
Lucien Carr wasn’t just the person who brought Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in...
WHEN JACK KEROUAC HAD HIS CRACK-UP
Spiraling down a silo of despair and drunkenness in the wake of his On The Road/Dharma Bums celebrity...
WHEN JACK (KEROUAC) MET MAX (BODENHEIM)
When the young Beat novelist (Kerouac) met the old bohemian poet (Bodenheim) in 1951, they were headed in...
ANDY WARHOL AND THE BEATS IN DENVER: A CONVERSATION WITH MARK SINK
Denver photographer, street artist and gallery owner Mark Sink talks about the Andy Warhol he knew, the one...
MY BOYS: STERLING LORD ON JACK KEROUAC, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI AND KEN KESEY
The longtime publishing insider and agent Sterling Lord is still keeping the Beat flames burning for Kerouac, Ferlinghetti...
SON OF A GUN: NEAL CASSADY’S SON JOHN TELLS ALL
John Allen Cassady, now 67, reflects on growing up with the king of the counterculture, the inspiration for...
A TWO-DAY BASH IN DENVER FOR NEAL CASSADY’S BIRTHDAY!
Jello Biafra, David Amram, Heather Dalton, Nancy Weil and many others converged on Denver to honor the city’s self-proclaimed “unnatural son,”...
BEAT TO A PULP: TALKING ‘BOUT OUR GENERATION(S)
Pulp fiction may be fun to think about and the books’ covers are a delight, but the contents...