8.16.2007

On the Road - 50th Anniversary

The 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is September 5. (I hope to attend a reading at Vesuvio's, one of the old Beat hangouts in San Francisco.)


Here's an interesting article from the UK Guardian. (And an amazingly unimpressive one from the New York Times.) {Note: Here's another -- better -- article from NYT.)


According to the Guardian, Kerouac's image has been prostituted by "a range of Jack Kerouac clothing launched in America." Ugh.


On a more positive note, Viking Penguin has published On the Road: The Original Scroll, the full, uncensored text.

This looks cool, too. Check out Kerouac's postcards...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The NYT is "amazingly" unimpressive? I've always thought its unimpressiveness was a given. Maybe that explains why I haven't looked at the NYT in--gosh, I don't know how long. (If memory serves, I stopped reading it when I came across a stupid and impressively unfunny essay about books set to showtunes. Or something to that effect.)

LK said...

Brandon, you are such a cynic. But that's why we love you.

Bobby D. said...

Love Jack. Thanks for the Links.

Bobby D. said...

maybe the Kerouac clothes were launched in the USA , but the creator of the line is European, and they claim the launch was in Paris. A $1,500 jacket is hardly anything like Jack would have worn anyway.

Dewey said...

I went to visit the scroll! I posted some very blurry, illegal photos of it in my blog.