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In December 1961, “Glamour” magazine published a prose sketch by Jack Kerouac called “Home at Christmas” in which he recalls a blizzardy holiday scene from his youth in Pawtucketville. The writing is loose and lyrical in his spontaneous prose mode. Following is an excerpt from the sketch, which is available…
Read More »Tonight’s NYT online includes a home-page positive review of “The Fighter” by A. O. Scott in which the commentary goes on at length and includes observations about the portrayal of Lowell and the city’s place in American culture. Read the review here, and get the NYT if you want more.…
Read More »Prompted by Dick’s post about the Johnny Depp interview in Vanity Fair magazine, I’ll share this account of his visit in 1991. I spent the better part of a day and evening with him and John Sampas. I waited a long time before publishing anything about the experience because I was…
Read More »“From the low-lit fastnesses of my study, I looked solemnly at the newspaper headlines. On my desk, its brown pigeon-holes stuffed with ledger, manuscripts, sheet, inkwell, sentimental token . . . . on this desk of mine I lay the screaming visage of a Hearst tabloid—it said: JAPAN DECLARES WAR…
Read More »The NYTimes today has a long travel article about the bookstore culture in San Francisco with the expected mention of Lowell’s Jack Kerouac. Read the article here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »David Amram’s 80th Birthday Bash! Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m., UMass Lowell, Durgin Concert Hall, 35 Wilder Street (parking available in the Wilder Street lot at the corner of Broadway) Free & Open to the Public A musical birthday celebration of composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, featuring the University…
Read More »See yesterday’s NYTimes about the new Kurt Vonnegut Library in his hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. This project is interesting to learn about in light of early discussions here about establishing a Kerouac Center for Creativity. Read the article here, and get the NYT if you appreciate the reporting. In the article there’s a…
Read More »Here’s my account of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue performance in the Costello Gymnasium of the University of Lowell on November 2, 1975—PM Dylan was excellent in Lowell last night. Baez was superb in Lowell last night. The Rolling Thunder Revue was really something in Lowell last night. Dylan, the singing poet…
Read More »Poet Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan, courtesy of tangledupinlheurebleue.blogspot] Show flier for Rolling Thunder Revue at ULowell (1975) [Web photo courtesy of picasaweb.google.com] At Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan] At Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Franco American School (1975)…
Read More »From the UMass Lowell Honors Program: “The Honors Program is proud to welcome the award-winning filmmaker Henry Ferrini to campus on November 18 as this year’s Honors Community Fellow. Ferrini will screen his 30-minute film, Lowell Blues, at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street in Lowell, at 4:00, followed…
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