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Tag Archives: Jack Kerouac
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by Art Chantry: this is jack kerouac’s passport photo. note spelling…
the huck of it: the enviable goddam silences
Like Huck Finn, to whom Holden Caulfield is constantly compared, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye is usually described as a rebel, either against the materialism and ugliness of “our society” or against the realities of the adult … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Anatole Grunwald, Carl Strauch, Claire Douglas, Eloise Perry hazard, Ernest Heingway, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Huckleberry Finn, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Jack Skow, James Bryan, John Aldridge, Mark Twain, Maxwell Geismer, Peter Martin The Landsmen, Sumitra Panikar, Warren French
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J.D : still be-Holden
The critics always worked busily to classify J.D. Salinger. He always eluded them. There was always a feeling in many quarters that altogether too much fuss was being made about J.D. Salinger. George Steiner once castigated it as “The Salinger … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary McCarthy, Max Brod, Maxwell Geismer, Richard Prince, Salinger Franny and Zooey, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger
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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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bumpy ride: back seat hider
Mobilize yourself. Come travel but forgo aesthetic or metaphorical niceties. Its a bumpy ride in the early days of conceptual art especially one aimed to outrage, aimed at the perceived social castration, aimed at a nightmarish urban vision. Disaffection personified … Continue reading
cinematic eye
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: …collagist and photographer, Marc Yankus. He and I have collaborated on a number of assignments over the years and Yankus’s work was always the “easy part.” I knew his effort would be beautiful, and possessing of a … Continue reading
echoes of the beat
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design): TALKIN’ ‘BOUT THE BEAT G-G-G-G-GENERATION: Here’s a small sampling of how Jack Kerouac and the Beat writers were presented in their time, and from the relatively recent past. Dig it man. More … Continue reading
the essential thing is to want to sing
Having read the first few sentences of Tropic of Cancer, you will remember them. Henry Miller can use the language. He writes strong, biting, memorable, vivid prose. Often it is unjust to begin criticizing a book by taking out its … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred perles, Allen Ginsberg, anais nin, Beat Poets, ben grauer, ben grauer interview henry miller, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Le sphinx paris, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, William S. Burroughs, Wittgenstein
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