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[starxs-s]

Bugs when you lift the rock

[larrybeckett]

on writing American Cycle

Beat Soundtrack #20: Larry Beckett

In which prominent Beat figures, writers and critics, historians and academics, fans and followers, talk about the relationship between that

“After writing most of the long poems of American Cycle and contemplating writing a beginning and ending, I thought of when I was rolling down the freeway back into Los Angeles after years away, and how those old off-ramp names — Sepulveda, Sunset, Figueroa — had stayed in my memory, like the names of rivers a century before. These highways are our rivers. And then from On the Road I took the image of the American driver and imagined him going north on Highway 1, and then west on Route 66, along the way encountering the next nexus, where history, legend, and song mysteriously cross, and I had US Rivers, to start and finish the epic.”

[pear-pies]

Upcoming bands / Melody Maker Festival Guide 1997    

[pear-pies]

Melody Maker - May 17, 1997

[uncleweed]

Interview #12: Dave Olson

A Canadian who long went East reveals the ins and outs of a magnificent Kerouac event in Japan forced to dodge the impact of the global pand

very generous lovely comments – to an interview with interview about my Jack #Kerouac and other related literary projects with @simon_warner and his fantastic newsletter.

Please, truly take a moment to read

[uncleweed]

Street poetry 'a concept album at heart'

A Californian poet, passionate music fan and Beat admirer spots a link between his latest, best-selling, collection Lyon Street and the narrative attached to some key LPs in the rock canon