Robert Frank Has Eyes
Huffington Post (blog)
The Americans, like Kerouac's On the Road, reflects a cross-country car trip. Its vision is a sad America of individuals caught in a wide expanse of ...

Robert Frank Has Eyes
Huffington Post (blog)
The Americans, like Kerouac's On the Road, reflects a cross-country car trip. Its vision is a sad America of individuals caught in a wide expanse of ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Ed Ruscha: interview
Telegraph.co.uk
Ruscha's books – a new one, an illustrated edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, is launched in London on October 12 – are among his most original ...

Korea Times
Grace Under Pressure
Korea Times
Jake Barnes in ``The Sun Also Rises" says, ``I did not care what (the world) was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. ...

Ron Devlin: Engineer's heart still in small Lower Heidelberg home
Reading Eagle
In the spirit of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," the 24-year-old Lower Heidelberg Township man meandered over Route 66 in a pilgrimage through the American ...

Book Reimagines Literary Masterpieces in 140 Characters
Switched (blog)
And then there's our personal favorite, Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road': "For TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack ...

Financial Times
Ed Ruscha's great subject
Financial Times
His latest work, “On The Road”, an artist's book of Jack Kerouac's classic novel, opens here on October, to coincide with a major European retrospective of ...

Up Directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson Rated PG Running time ...
Brisbane Times
If the script does show hints of parody, the butt of the joke would seem to be Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness , for the explorer Muntz turns out to be a ...

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Classic works get Twitterature treatment in new book
guardian.co.uk
On the Road has just the one: "For TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack Kerouac."

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Atlantic Online
In Search of Charlie Chaplin
Atlantic Online
Here Henry James lived while writing Daisy Miller---setting her initial coquettishness in the prim world of the 19th century lakeside Vevey hotel where he ...

TRAIL MIX: Going up 'Darkness' just feels wrong
Whistler Question
After getting back to Base II, it was down Haulback for the truly depraved part of the course, because after coming down we were sent up Heart of Darkness. ...

Against Literary Imperialism: Storming the Barricades of the Canon
Monthly Review
If you teach Conrad's Heart of Darkness today, you have every reason to pair it with Season of Migration to the North, by the great Sudanese novelist Tayeb ...

The Age
All our belongings
The Age
Drawing heavily on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Grenville presents her main protagonist, Thornhill, as struggling with an overwhelming ambivalence ...

My Secret Life: Steve Buscemi
Independent
A book that changed me ... was 'On the Road', which I read when I was about 19. It opened up this whole new world to me. Afterwards I read Jack Kerouac's ...

True/Slant
Read the book, saw the movie, now sending you the postcard…
True/Slant
... under the Mediterranean sun, and who knows how many Americans have been gored by bulls in Pamplona because of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. ...

What happened on this day?
tayyar.org
1957 - Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was first published. 1958 - The first color videotaped program was aired. It was "The Betty Freezor Show" on WBTV-TV in ...

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Examiner.com
Joyce Johnson's Door Wide Open
Examiner.com
... by Allen Ginsberg, until their affair—which took place after the release of On the Road an important period in Kerouac's life—had become a friendship. ...

Running with the bulls in Pamplona is an experience you can't pass up
Westmount Examiner
Photo: sanfermin.com Ever since Ernest Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises in 1926, plenty of popular imagination has been wrapped into the phrase ...

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guardian.co.uk
Notes & queries
guardian.co.uk
I memorised Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for a one-man show. It's a short book of around 36000 words; it took around nine months to memorise it, and, ...

Ybor City hosts literature festival
Tampa Bay Newspapers
Leland is the author of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) and another on American pop culture titled, ...