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Auctioning the original roll, again
Here we go again.
Jan 31
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Kerouac's Football Odyssey, Part III
Conclusion
Jan 23
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Kerouac's Gridiron Odyssey, Part II
(continued from Part I)
Jan 22
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Kerouac's Gridiron Odyssey, Part I
One aspect of his life that often gets lost, at least in my experience, when people talk about Jack Kerouac, is his love of football.
Jan 21
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Jack Kerouac, visual artist
Often lost in the study of the life of Jack Kerouac is how seriously he took himself as a visual artist.
Jan 12
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The original roll, not scroll
Gerald Nicosia’s Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century (Noodlebrain Press, 2019) is chock full of details above and beyond the main theme of—as Ed Sanders…
Jan 6
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A Kerouac New Year
1947/48
Dec 31, 2025
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Kerouac’s Christmas Memory
Published December 5, 1957 in the New York World-Telegram
Dec 25, 2025
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A place to write
A number of scholars of the Beat Generation have opined that Jack Kerouac’s mother, Gabrielle, was a negative influence on her son—“overbearing” is an…
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