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Dream Journal: Travels with Chuck D.

Jack Kerouac kept a dream journal. This log of nightly dreams was later published by City Lights Press in 1960 as Book of Dreams. Even before it was published, though, Kerouac encouraged others to pay attention to their dreams. He told Allen Ginsberg to infuse his poetry with his dream life. When I was a […]

20 Reasons to Read “On the Road” in Your 20s

It recently came to my attention that Buzzfeed posted an article called “65 Books You Need to Read In Your 20s,” and I immediately knew Jack Kerouac would make the cut. After all, so many people have told me Kerouac is for young people. First, though, at number 18 came Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also […]

2013 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival Lineup Announced

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac recently announced the 2013 festival line up! It’s tentative at the moment, but this is what’s listed: Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival 2013: 50th Anniversary of Visions of Gerard and 25th Anniversary of Kerouac Commemmorative “Everybody goes home in October.” –Jack Kerouac, On the Road [Draft schedule, 26 July 2013] Pre-Festival Events Sunday, […]

The Great Valhouli Fauxlore: Slate Uncovers Truth Behind Kerouac-Burroughs Fight

Those of us who devote our time studying the life and work of Jack Kerouac and yet who simultaneously spend a lot of our time on Facebook already called “hoax” on that photograph that was being circulated around about a plaque on how Kerouac and William S. Burroughs got into a drunken fight over the […]

Sneak Peek at My Goodreads To-Read List

If you’ve been following along for a while now, you know I’ve been doing a blog series on Goodreads. Today I want to talk about one of my favorite Goodreads features. I like that I can keep track of what I’ve read in the past (though I’m sure there are lots I’ve left off), but […]

How Many Stars Should a Book Get on Goodreads?

Yesterday I wrote about my experience on Goodreads. I think most people use it to write and read reviews of books, but truth be told I don’t do that. The only “review” I give is ranking a book through Goodreads’ star system, and I only do that because it seems sort of mandatory. I actually […]

Clip: One Subject Many Ways: The Sunflower

I’m currently enjoying art critic Martin Gayford‘s The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles. Published in 2009 by Hachette, the well-researched book tells the story of how the artists ended up living in a house together in the south of France and how their time together influenced their work. It’s […]

The Quotable Greek: Words Have a Longer Life

Words have a longer life than deeds. ~ Pindar You may also enjoy::: Pindar Pythagoras Wine Filed under: Greekish Tagged: Pindar, The Quotable Greek

Kalo Mina! August 2013

This is me at the beach. In December. In Florida. I haven’t been back to the beach since. Kalo mina! Happy first day of August!! Can you believe how fast the summer is flying by? I’ve been so busy I feel like I’ve barely even begun to embrace summer. A few years ago, I read […]

Photos from the 2013 New York City Poetry Festival

I feel incredibly honored to have been invited to read at the 2013 New York City Poetry Festival. I had such a blast hearing so many great poets read at last year’s festival, and it never occurred to me that just a year later I would be joining them on stage. I have poet RA […]