LITERARY ARTS: LATER, ANASTASIA
I’m mingling among a group of women at a cocktail party when someone brings up books. Books!, I think. I’m a reader! And I write! I feel with triumphant certainty that I will have something to...
View ArticleREEL TALK: VOLUME 14, ISSUE 51
ON THE ROAD I’ve done ev’rything in my might Ignoring the shitstorm of Twilight But Jack Kerouac? I take it all back. Its failure I can’t wait to highlight. [R | Wide Release, 12.21.12]...
View ArticleADAPTATION NATION: ON THE ROAD
Last Friday On The Road, based on Jack Kerouac’s novel, opened at Coolidge Corner Theater. And the movie definitely has Kerouac grinning in his grave. SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE OR...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: RAY MANZAREK OF THE DOORS
“I’ll tell you what happened to me when I first opened up my doors of perception …” How many interviews can one sort through before they find a question that hasn’t been asked or answered? When it...
View ArticleBOOK ‘EM: DIG: SOUND AND MUSIC IN HIP CULTURE BY PHIL FORD
When I read the following on page 12 of Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture, I darn near slammed the book shut: “[W]riting the intellectual history of hipness is an inherently contradictory and perhaps...
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