Posts Tagged ‘Jack Kerouac’
Tracking Jack Kerouac deep into Quebec
The ancestral homestead in the Quebec countryside is long gone. But a monument, unrelated, marks the spot where it stood – and where, in August 1967, Jack Kerouac came to visit. Born in Lowell, Mass., in 1922, the author best-known for On The Road would have turned 100 last March. The township he visited at…
Read MoreKing of the Beats died 50 years ago
The 50th anniversary of the death of Jack Kerouac, on October 21, is certain to inspire an outpouring of remembrance and might also spark controversy. Certainly the “King of the Beats,” with his Quebecois roots, had a powerful effect on me. In the Sixties, after reading just about everything Kerouac had written, I went on…
Read MoreA rucksack warrior hits the Psychedelic Sixties in Kerouac’s Ghost
OK, so we’re away Into the Northwest Passage. Before sailing, and so going incommunicado, I offer a brief excerpt from my novel Kerouac’s Ghost. This newly revised ebook edition publishes on Sept. 16, but is now available from Bev Editions at the advance price of $2.99. Again it was 1966, Thanksgiving Day, and I had just…
Read MoreKerouac’s Ghost delivers ‘unrepentant blast from the past’
Author’s Note from the new ebook edition, available here from Bev Editions . . . . “The secret Canadian life of Jack Kerouac.” So said the headline in Maclean’s magazine. A subhead elaborated: “Reading Kerouac’s lost French writings reveals the travails of a Canuck in America.” The date was June 2016, and I could only scratch…
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