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Scott Woods Featuring at First Draft on Friday, December 19
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/ 2008/ 12/ 01/ scott-woods-featuring-at-first-draft-…Writer’s Block is holding its First Draft Poetry Night on Friday, December 19 at 8:00 PM at Kafe Kerouac, 2250 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio. Admission is $3. This is a night to read new poems only and is hosted by WB’s only Joanna Schroeder.
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Keeping Kerouac, fighting Freudenberger, and other tales from book organizing
http://www.iwilldare.com/ 2008/ 11/ 28/ keeping-kerouac-fighting-freudenberger-a…Whenever I host Rock & Roll Bookclub I see it as an opportunity to get my books in order. In theory, for every book I put in the case I would take one off to give away or list on Bookmooch. That theory is total bullshit. I am greedy. However, I am pleased to report that I have a small laundry basket filled with books to give away.
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Burroughs-Kerouac book isn't worth the wait
http://www.gazettenet.com/ 2008/ 11/ 26/ burroughskerouac-book-isn039t-worth-wai…More than 60 years ago, when Jack Kerouac was 23 and William S. Burroughs was 30, they were arrested in New York City for helping a friend cover up a murder. Although neither had written anything worth mentioning yet, they fancied themselves writers. So, after they beat the rap, they collaborated on a novel based on the case.
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The Dead Generation
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ nlbelardes/ 2008/ 11/ the-dead-generation/The Dead Generation November 18th, 2008 by N.L. Belardes BAKERSFIELD, CA- I’m wondering if writers in my Generation X age group who contribute their talents to various sites and newspapers, and yet don’t feel like they’re a part of a literary movement, might feel a kinship to this particular piece that I have never shared publicly until now.
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Stealing Peanut Butter From the Dead
http://thepeanutbutterblog.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 11/ stealing-peanut-butter-from-d…British comedian Russell Brand has admitted to grave robbing. Did he take something valuable? Jewelry perhaps? No. During his recent appearance on the Late Show, he told host David Letterman that he took peanut butter from the grave site of writer Jack Kerouac. "Around his grave were all manner of tributes left by well-wishers.
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Beats: An Accounting
http://americanfiction.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 11/ 17/ beats-an-accounting/The Brits have funny ideas about American culture if they think that Smokey and the Bandit is somehow part of the Beat legacy. (Hey, why not RV, then? Kenny Rogers’ Six Pack?) But I appreciate the London Times asking—in the wake of the universally scathing reviews of the Jack Kerouac-William S.
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The Thing I Like Most About Blogging…
http://politicsofscrabble.org/ ?p=1330Is that I rarely know prior to writing a post where it will end up. Often times where a post goes is as much a surprise to me as anyone else. I generally get a very basic idea of something I want to write about, and then I sit down and start writing and the post evolves as I’m typing.
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What Would Jack Kerouac Say About Second Life?
http://dusanwriter.com/ index.php/ 2008/ 11/ 15/ what-would-jack-kerouac-say-abo…Swiping this quote from Cyril’s: “If one were to hop in a time machine and set it to 1955 or so and location Greenwich Village NY you would be in the midst of the start of a significant creative movement in literature, art and music. With people who said things like this. The only people [...]
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A book of blood about the crime which inspired the Beats
http://richard_watts.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 11/ book-of-blood-about-crime-which.htm…And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks is an early novel written collaboratively by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs over the winter of 1944-1945. Narrated in alternating chapters by the young merchant seaman Mike Ryko (Kerouac) and barman turned private investigator Will Dennison (Burroughs),
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Jack on Long Island
http://afilreis.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 11/ jack-on-long-island.htmlLast year, the folks at poetryvlog.com went out to Northport, Long Island, where Jack Kerouac lived from 1958 through 1964. In a 5-minute video, one of the two poetryvlog producers, George Harris, takes us on a tour of the town, which was in the midst of a community celebration at the time.
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