Jack Kerouac is big business; in 2010, one biographer estimated the value of his estate at $30 million. So Kerouac-iana can create a stir, especially previously unknown documents directly related to ...
As a member of Uncle Tupelo, a solo artist, and now, in his second go as the leader of Son Volt, Jay Farrar has written hundreds of songs–and in terms of inspiration and the creative process, he’s ...
It’s hard to believe that Jack Kerouac has been gone nearly a half century. In fact, this year marks a sad milestone: He has now been dead longer than he was alive. Yet Lowell’s favorite son remains a ...
The legend of Sterling Lord dates back to 1952, when he was just getting started as a literary agent. Into his basement-level office on Park Avenue in Manhattan walked a young man wearing “a light ...
“Howl” (1956) and “On the Road” (1957), two works that helped define a time, sprang from two wildly fired, independent imaginations. Few would have put Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac together when ...
This coming Oct. 9-13 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) will present our 37th Annual Jack Kerouac Festival. The first one was held in the summer of 1988 with the Dedication of the Jack Kerouac ...
Scott Simon speaks with David Sandberg, owner of Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass., about all the Hemingway, Kerouac and Bukowski books that have kept getting stolen over the years. Who's ...
One afternoon in 1944, two aspiring writers met in an apartment a few blocks from the Columbia University campus in New York City. The younger of the pair was a 17-year-old poet from New Jersey named ...
The most famous lost letter ever sent from San Francisco was finally returned Monday — 64 years later, hand-delivered by plane, taxi and foot, with three people walking security. “The Joan Anderson ...
2002-06-09T17:05:13-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgMr. Lord talked about his experiences as Jack Kerouac’s agent. Mr. Lord talked ...
“What’s your road, man? – holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road.” For Beat writer Jack Kerouac, author of the legendary novel “On the Road,” the road began and ended in Lowell.
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