Belatedly noting this – V.J. Eaton‘s “the literary denim Unpublished Beat Pics Postcard Series” (over a hundred of them, now well into a second series), coming out of Rene van der Voort‘s estimable Counter Culture Chronicles in Rotterdam.
“I dole them out in the US to the photographers and people in the pics if still alive and if I have contact info. Rene distributes what’s left mostly through Europe. The print run is limited to collector size, 75 copies”, Eaton writes.
Plenty of pictures of Allen, but of “other folks’ too
more Kerouac – no need for excuses for more Kerouac!
So, as March 12, the precise date of the Kerouac Centennial, approaches, we continue our links to great Jack Kerouac articles here on The Allen Ginsberg Project. How about this/these? – more from the 1982 Kerouac Conference – here and here
and following on from last week’s international focus – Marco Moretti in La Stampa on the coming celebrations. – and part two here
Be prepared for Kerouac criticisms too – Jonny Diamond of Literary Hub in response to Kerouac’s statement, “I wish that I had been born and raised in Dickinson, North Dakota” – “Jack Kerouac fetishized the white working class almost as much as. a NY Times reporter”!
Some time since we noted Howl parodies – remember this? – or, for that matter, this one?
Pleased to receive in the mails from its author a great one in the tradition – (my) Howl
We love this “I Remember” – David Levi Straus remembers Diane Di Prima
and on the academic front – The Beat Studies Association‘s Journal of Beat Studies has been revitalized
and on the non-academic front, The Beat Museum has big plans (hoping it all works out for them) – see here