Menu
Here’s the schedule of activities for the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival, which starts on Thursday, Oct. 6, and runs through the Columbus Day holiday on Oct. 10. Note that on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 5 pm, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception to officially open the new permanent exhibit…
Read More »The American Scholar has published an excerpt from the forthcoming memoir by the dean of literary agents in New York City, Sterling Lord. He became Jack Kerouac’s agent in the mid-1950s, and in the early 60s linked up with Ken Kesey, who had just written “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…
Read More »9th Annual Kerouac Road Race Race proceeds go to the Jack Kerouac Scholarship awarded to a Lowell High School graduating senior planning a major in literature or the arts. Time is running out to get your micro-tec race t-shirt!!! Sunday, September 25th Be one of the first 400 registered and…
Read More »The front page of the “Home” section of the NYTimes today has an article headlined “The Jack Kerouac of Junk,” which is a profile of the co-star of the popular “American Pickers” weekly program on the History Channel (5.5 million people watch). The “antiques” dealer who started rescuing bicyles and…
Read More »My wife and I did the be-a-tourist-in-your-own-state thing again yesterday as part of our “stay-cation” approach this summer. We started and ended our day in Andover, but spent most of the bright blue-sky day in Boston, which looked very good in the parts we visited. Boston King Coffee on Main Street…
Read More »From the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office, read more about new Kerouac developments in Lowell. Jack Kerouac tuning in to the universe. (Photo by John Cohen, 1959; web image courtesy of theselvegeyard)
Read More »The Beat Museum in San Francisco is now a contributing blogger for the Huffington Post. Here is a recent post about the forthcoming film version of Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road.”
Read More »In the journal The Beat Review Beat literature scholar Jimmy Fazzino of the Universtiy of California, Santa Cruz, reviews Bill Morgan’s latest book “Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America” (2011: City Lights Books, S.F.). The guidebook opens with Lowell and Jack Kerouac. Beginning…
Read More »Artist Ed Ruscha elaborates on the way Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” influenced him in 1958 and continued to affect his work through the years. Read the report from the Associated Press via ABC News here.
Read More »Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Inc., the tireless community group that produces literary and cultural events in March and October each year as a tribute to the lasting inspiration of Jack Kerouac, posted on its Facebook page several photographs of the Kerouac Commemorative in Kerouac Park at Bridge and French streets. The…
Read More »