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The world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s play “Beat Generation” made news coast to coast and around the world this week. Among the media outlets that published articles and reviews or broadcast reports were the Associated Press, Rolling Stone, WBUR and WGBH radio in Boston, the Sun, Howl in Lowell and…
Read More »Here’s the new trailer for the “On the Road” movie, which will open in the USA just before Christmas. Don’t forget that Kerouac’s only full-length play, “Beat Generation,” will have its world premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Oct. 10 – 14, as part of the Kerouac Literary Festival.
Read More »Heavy-duty media coverage of world premiere of the “On the Road” film premiere tomorrow in France at Cannes Film Festival. There will be more reporting after people see the film. Maybe they will like it.
Read More »The film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel “On the Road” by Director Walter Salles has been selected to compete for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May, according to the NYTimes. Read about it in Arts Briefly.
Read More »This is interesting. A collection of book covers from editions of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel “On the Road.” This was shared on Facebook by Jim Canary, the “keeper” of the famous “On the Road” scroll typescript at the University of Indiana Library. See the covers here, from UK, USA, France,…
Read More »The “On the Road” movie trailer was released today. See it here.
Read More »In his opinion column today, NYTimes writer David Brooks muses about his lifelong affection for the New York Mets baseball team. As he usually does, Brooks expands from particular to universal and winds up making an observation about what makes people truly happy. In his analysis he uses two American…
Read More »What do I think of “Howl in Lowell”…? Just what the doctor ordered. A huge push-back from the culture-makers and -consumers in the city who believe that more attention should be paid. Logical next step, given the vast supply of cultural product in the city, and broad recognition that we have…
Read More »Kerouac played football like he wrote, with a lot of power and invention. He was an athlete at the typewriter who could compose with speed and accuracy. It is fascinating to see how he keeps popping up in the news stream. Today, boston.com and the Bos. Globe include an arts note…
Read More »Jerry Cimino of the Beat Museum in San Francisco has an intriguing segment in his latest newsletter, which I’m reproducing in full because the effect would be lost in paraphrasing. So, courtesy of www.kerouac.com, here’s news about the now-completed “On the Road” film that is expected to premiere in France this…
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