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October 10, 2013
Limited Time Offer: 10% Off the Paperback of Burning Furiously Beautiful
Exciting news! Pop the champagne! The paperback edition of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is now on sale. Limited-time offer We’re giving you an extra 10% off now through the end of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac. (Unfortunately, the books won’t arrive in time for us to sell physical copies […]
Hot Tip: 7 Kerouac-Related Places to Visit in Lowell Not Covered by Lowell Celebrates Kerouac
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) has done another fantastic job creating an itinerary that explores the town in which Kerouac was born and where he was laid to rest. If you’re spending time in Lowell and want to explore a few places off the beaten track, though, there are still many Kerouac-related places to check out. […]
October 9, 2013
5 of the Most Famous People and Things to Come Out of Lowell
Whistler’s self-portrait You already know that Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell and set many of his books there, but the Massachusetts town is also the birthplace of several other famous people and inventions. With Lowell Celebrates Kerouac going on this week, I thought it would be fun to explore 5 fun facts about Lowell: […]
October 8, 2013
Clip: How Do You Like Them Apples?
Carl Larsson’s Apple Harvest (1903) My latest art post is up on Burnside. It’s all about how artists, from Louise Moillon to Sarah Stupak, have depicted apples over the years. You can read it here. * * * Burning Furiously Beautiful is now available as an ebook! You can download your copy here. Filed under: Clips, Visual […]
October 7, 2013
Happy Birthday, Amiri Baraka!
Happy birthday to the great poet, playwright, critic, and activist Amiri Baraka! Baraka was born on this day in 1934 in Newark, the same New Jersey city where eight years earlier Allen Ginsberg had been born. His given name was Everett LeRoi Jones, and he went by LeRoi, eventually changing his name in the late 1960s to […]
October 3, 2013
Maria Fragoudaki’s “Superheroes”
Maria Fragoudaki’s “Sometimes I Cannot Control Myself” 2013 Mixed media on canvas. 70in x 56in. Move over, Ben Affleck! Maria Fragoudaki‘s Superheroes opens tonight at New York’s One Art Space (23 Warren Street; Street level—Gallery 1; Manhattan). Fragoudaki explores issues of identity in New York City. Her larger-than-life works of mixed media shine like the bat […]
October 2, 2013
Recap from My Reading at Jason Harrod’s Album Launch
Do you mind if I tell you about my reading with Jason Harrod, even though it happened a few weeks ago? I know it’s waaaaay overdue but I still want to share it with you because it was a fun event and I was happy to see some of you there. So I get to Space […]
October 1, 2013
Kalo Mina! October 2013!
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Kalo mina! Happy October 1st! The first day of fall was September 22, but the weather today feels more like late spring. The sky is a bright, bright blue, the color of parakeet feathers. I walked down to […]
September 30, 2013
“Burning Furiously Beautiful” eBook Now Available!
Happy Monday! I have BIG news to share today. Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is now available as an eBook! You can get it for $8.99 at Lulu. Here’s a bit about the book from Lulu: Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the […]
September 27, 2013
Friday Links: …Punctuation!
In honor of it being National Punctuation Day earlier this week (the 24th, to be exact), here are some punctuation-related links::: Mary Norris’ delightful piece on National Punctuation Day in The New Yorker Literary agent Sterling Lord talks about how deeply Jack Kerouac thought about punctuation in his recent memoir Lord of Publishing “Remove literary, […]
