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JANUARY
2007
 Scroll Tour Continues -
January 1 to
March 31, 2007
- Kerouac On The Road Scroll Display:
Denver
Public Library, Denver, CO For a complete schedule of events,
see
http://www.denver.lib.co.us/programs/fresh/kerouac.html
I counted minutes and
subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all
golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old
Denver at last.
--
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
HOWL ON TRIAL EVENTS
with Editor Bill Morgan
Bill Morgan, editor/author of the recent
Howl On Trial, I Celebrate Myself, The Book of Martyrdom, [noted
Allen Ginsberg Biographer]. January 15, Monday, 8:00 pm - Mr.
Morgan will be making an appearance to discuss his three books. Held at
the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd St. YMCA, 1395 Lexington Avenue. (with
Ann Charters, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, and Laurie Anderson)
Friday January 12, Time TBA
Northshire Bookstore
4869 Main St.
Manchester Center, VT
Monday, January 15, 8:00 pm
Howl on Trial Book Release Event!
Kaufmann Concert Hall
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
Recordings of Mr. Ginsberg are featured. Event also includes: Ann
Charters, Joyce Johnson, and Hettie Jones
For more information call (212) 415-5500
SATURDAY, JANUARY
13, 2PM, WHAT WAS THE BEAT GENERATION? Presented by Professor
Ann Charters (“Kerouac: A Biography”; The Portable Beat Reader”; “Beat
Down to Your Soul”), this lecture will focus on the beginnings of the
movement. GREENWICH LIBRARY,
Connecticut, SECOND FLOOR MEETING ROOM, For more info call ED MORRISSEY
at (203) 622-7918. Part of a Beat Generation series of lectures put on
by the library.
Thursday, 1/25/07,
Reading of On The Road - event take place at the Writers House, 3805
Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P). 4:00 PM - 12:00 AM in the Arts
Cafe.
Kelly Writers House celebrates the 50th
Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Jack
Kerouac's On the Road, a rollicking,
stream-of-consciousness novel, burst onto the literary scene in
1957, rocketing Kerouac to fame and inspired a multi-generational
obsession with "the road." On the Road, a rapid-fire
adventure tale of crossing the country (and back again) solo and
with friends, discovering drugs, jazz, and the "bug" of travel,
became a benchmark for the Beat Generation.
Kerouac wrote the novel in a three-week
marathon burst on 12-reams of paper he taped together and referred
to as "the scroll." In celebration of the book, and the spirit of
the book, the Writers House will host a marathon reading of our own
scroll, featuring local luminary guest readers, accompanied by
improvisational jazz musicians, and you! Stop by the house to listen
to the novel, enjoy the jazz and jump in on the reading! If you
would like to read a section of the scroll, please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
February
2007
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
January 1 to
March 31, 2007 - Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Display: Denver
Public Library, Denver, CO For a complete schedule of events,
see
http://www.denver.lib.co.us/programs/fresh/kerouac.html
I counted minutes and
subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all
golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old
Denver at last.
--
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
March
2007
Jack Kerouac's Birthday, March 12, 1922
On The Road Scroll Tour Continues -
January 1 to
March 31, 2007 - Kerouac's On The Road Scroll Display: Denver
Public Library, Denver, CO For a complete schedule of events,
see
http://www.denver.lib.co.us/programs/fresh/kerouac.html
I counted minutes and
subtracted miles. Just ahead, over the rolling wheat fields all
golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old
Denver at last.
--
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
 March
10, 2007, Saturday:
Jack
Kerouac's birthday
celebration--Lowell, MA - self-guided tours, cemetery walk and
evening event
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.
March 11, 2007,
Sunday, Auckland, New Zealand - The
Literatti (a performance poetry posse) will be putting on a show to
honour Kerouac on the eve of his birthday, 11th of March, at Shanghai
Lils in Auckland. The line up includes The Literatti, Genevieve McClean,
Anna Kaye, Sally Legg and others. 8 pm - 12 midnight on the 11th
of March.
Thursday March 15, 2007 -New York City event to benefit the
movement to bring the original On The Road Scroll back to Lowell.
Contact The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City for details.
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
GEORGE WALLACE AND FRIENDS
present -- a reading to benefit 'Scroll To Lowell," a drive in
Jack Kerouac's hometown to bring the original On The Road scroll
to town for viewing in 2007. $6 admission at the door, proceeds
will go to the cause.
SCROLL TO LOWELL: George Wallace and
Friends in a benefit reading to help bring Jack Kerouac's On The
Road manuscript to his hometown of Lowell Massachusetts this
summer. Tentative guests include Simon Pettet, Jason Eisenberg,
Eero Ruuttila, LZ Nunn and special guest Yesod.
March 18, 2007, Sunday, Jack Kerouac Birthday
Reading - Composition Gallery presents Raging in the Gloom: A
Jack Kerouac Birthday Celebration. Readings, live music, and
refreshments. Sunday March 18, 6 p.m. Free. 1388 McLendon Ave.
Atlanta, Georgia 678-982-9764.
www.compositiongallery.com
THURSDAY, MARCH
22, 7PM, FOCUS ON JACK KEROUAC - Dr. Isaac Gewirtz, curator of the
New York Public Library’s Berg Collection, will speak about and give a
slide show presentation highlighting the life & work of the influential
“On The Road” author.
GREENWICH LIBRARY,
Connecticut, SECOND FLOOR MEETING ROOM, For more info call ED MORRISSEY
at (203) 622-7918. Part of a Beat Generation series of lectures put on
by the library.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - The Lost Years of Jack Kerouac -
On
Wednesday, March 28, at 2:00 P.M., in celebration of the 50th
anniversary of the publishing of the literary classic, “On the
Road,” local author and noted Kerouac scholar, Patrick Fenton,
will be speaking at the Massapequa Library, 40 Harbor Lane,
Massapequa Park, New York. He will discuss some interesting
and unknown facts about the Beat Generation writer, and his
famous journey. Mr. Fenton will also read from his play “Last
call: An Evening With Jack Kerouac which had a sold out run at
the Rockaway, Queens Playhouse. The play is based on Jack
Kerouac’s last night in Northport, Long, Island.
During his 12 years in Queens, Jack Kerouac, with a notebook
in his back pocket, roamed the streets from Sutphin to Cross
Bay Boulevards, and also to the ocean at Rockaway beach. It
was in Ozone Park, Queens that the writer planned his famous
“On the Road” journey from what he once described as “a
little kid’s sort of library.” After many years of chasing
the ghost of Jack Kerouac, Patrick Fenton has retraced a map
of these years and discovered what he calls “the lost years”
of Jack Kerouac. The chase took Mr. Fenton all the way from
Ozone Park, Queens to Northport, Long Island where it ended
at Gunther’s Bar on Main Street, a frequent Kerouac hangout
for many years.
March, 31, 2007, JACK KEROUAC ALLEY DEDICATION
- Saturday, March 31st, 2007 Noon – 4:00pm, EVERYONE
WELCOME! (Jack Kerouac Alley is located between Columbus and Grant
Aves. & City Lights/ Vesuvio), San Francisco, CA
Please join the Chinatown Alleyway Improvement
Association, the Chinatown Community Development Center, the
Department of Public Works, Vesuvio, City Lights, Board of
Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San
Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, Edwin Lee, the City’s
Chief Administrative Officer, Fred Abadi, the Director of DPW,
mandolin ensemble Zighi Baci, St. Mary’s School students, jazz
musicians, and many others to share this joyful event with us.
Jack Kerouac Alley, situated between Grant and
Columbus, and a stone's throw away from Broadway, brings
together the historic neighborhoods of Chinatown and North
Beach. In 2007, this alley was renovated and transformed into a
beautiful new passageway, lined with inspired writings by Li Po,
Confucius, Maya Angelou, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Steinbeck,
as well as Jack Kerouac himself.
April
2007
THURSDAY, MAY 17,
7PM, FOCUS ON ALLEN GINSBERG - Writer & Ginsberg expert/biographer
Bill Morgan (“I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen
Ginsberg”; “Howl on Trial”) will discuss the life, work and influence
of the late Beat poet and social activist.
GREENWICH LIBRARY,
Connecticut, SECOND FLOOR MEETING ROOM, For more info call ED
MORRISSEY at (203) 622-7918. Part of a Beat Generation series of
lectures put on by the library.
 April
26, Auction of Kerouac and beat items- PBA Auctions,
San Francisco. The sale of Kerouac and Bukowski items. See the catalog
on line at
http://www.pbagalleries.com/live/sale_details354_all.php
May
2007
June
2007
June 2, 2007, Kerouac to Receive Degree - LOWELL,
Massachusetts – Fifty years after the publication of Jack Kerouac’s most famous
book, “On the Road,” the University in his hometown will honor him posthumously
with an honorary doctorate of letters degree.
The award will be accepted by the executor of
Kerouac’s literary estate, brother-in-law John Sampas, at the June 2, 2007
commencement ceremony at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Two weeks
after that, the 120-foot “On the Road” scroll, upon which Kerouac’s
manuscript was drafted in 1951, will be on display at the Boott Mills Cotton
Museum in Lowell. The book was published in 1957.
“Jack Kerouac is synonymous with Lowell,” said John
Wooding, UMass Lowell provost. “His books made Lowell a literary location
known to the world, like Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ did for Concord. It is fitting
for UMass Lowell to be the university that recognizes his achievement as one
of the most important authors of the 20th century.”
This will be the only college degree awarded thus far
to the famous writer, who is studied by English literature majors
world-wide. Kerouac dropped out of Columbia University in his second year.
UML has a Kerouac Center for American Studies and
offers a biennial Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, directed by English
Prof. Hilary Holladay, which draws Kerouac scholars and fans from the region
and the world. Kerouac died in 1969 and is buried in Lowell.
Kerouac was nominated for an honorary degree by UMass
Lowell’s Community Relations Director Paul Marion, who is an author and
Kerouac scholar. Marion edited “Atop an Underwood,” a collection of
Kerouac’s early work. UMass Lowell then recommended the honorary doctorate
recipient to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, which voted
to accept it.
“Kerouac’s books are read and studied in colleges and
universities around the world,” said Marion. “Kerouac has always been
popular in the community of readers. With this honor, UMass Lowell welcomes
him into the community of scholars.”
Contact: Renae Lias Claffey 978-934-3233 or
Renae_Lias@uml.edu
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007-September 16,
2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of
Jack
Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum!
http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/
June 30, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics, Boulder, CO - In celebration of the 50th anniversary of
On the Road, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics will
share news of Kerouac celebrations around the world, updates about the
School's own Kerouac Festival on June 30 and July 1, 2007 and
perspectives of special guest bloggers.
July
2007
July 1, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied
Poetics, Boulder, CO - In celebration of the 50th anniversary of
On the Road, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics will
share news of Kerouac celebrations around the world, updates about the
School's own Kerouac Festival on June 30 and July 1, 2007 and
perspectives of special guest bloggers.
July 5th,
Thursday: Kerouac’s Last Call playing in
Lowell, MA. A play directed by Ann Garvin. Jerry Bisantz
as Jack Kerouac. National Park’s Visitor Center Theater, 246 Market
Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. Reserve your seat by calling
978-441-0102
On Thursday, July 5th, at 8:00 P.M., the Image Theater of
Lowell, Massachusetts will perform a fully staged reading of a
moving new play by Newsday writer Patrick Fenton which deals
with Kerouac’s Ozone Park, Queens years and Northport, Long
Island. It is his last night on Long Island, the America he saw
through a rear view mirror along side of Neal Cassady is slowly
playing again in his mind.
After throwing a small going away party for himself, he spends
the night tallying up his road years long after the few guests
have gone. Over some bourbon, he’s visited by the memory of his
father Leo and the early hardscrabble days when they lived as a
family over a drug store in Ozone Park, Queens. During the
evening, he receives a series of soul-searching phone calls from
his daughter Jan.
For reservations for this one night only event, go to
www.Imagetheater.com or call 978-441-0102. Limited seating
available. Image Theater is a not for profit theater company
that only produces new works. (producing 35 local playwrights
in less than two years, we like to think that we would be Jack's
favorite theater company!)
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007-September 16,
2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of
Jack
Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! Lots
of related events, check here
http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
August
2007
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007-September 16,
2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of
Jack
Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! Lots of
related events, check here
http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
September
2007
On The Road - 50 Years old
In honor of this
anniversary, Viking is publishing several Kerouac books, including the
original scroll version of On The Road.
On
the Road: The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac - Author
Howard Cunnell - Editor/introduction
Joshua Kupetz - Introduction by
George Mouratidis - Introduction by
Penny Vlagopoulos - Introduction by
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of
On the Road, published
word for word as Kerouac originally composed it.
[from the press release] Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about
the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it
was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West
Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft
that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced
paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped
together to form a 120 foot scroll, this document is among the most
significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary
American literary history. It represents the first full expression
of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point
at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a
sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider
vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual
arts in the post-World War II period.
It was not until more than six years later, and several new drafts,
that Viking published, in 1957, the novel known to us today. On the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Viking
will publish the 1951 scroll in a standard book format. The
differences between the two versions are principally ones of
significant detail and altered emphasis. The scroll is slightly
longer and has a heightened linguistic virtuosity and a more
sexually frenetic tone. It also uses the real names of Kerouac’s
friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them.
The transcription of the scroll was done by Howard Cunnell who,
along with Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos,
provides a critical introduction that explains the fascinating
compositional and publication history of On the Road and
anchors the text in its historical, political, and social context.
Book: Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 416 pages | ISBN
9780670063550 | 16 Aug 2007 | Viking Adult | Adult
$25.95
 On
the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
50th Anniversary Edition
Jack Kerouac - Author
A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that
defined a generation
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as
On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground
America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of
the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing
defined what it meant to be “beat” and has inspired generations of
writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their
discovery of the book as the event that “set them free.” Based on
Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the
story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest
for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed
naïveté and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America,
his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and
hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who
has ever picked it up. This hardcover edition commemorates the
fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957
and will be a must-have for any literature lover.
Book: Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 320 pages | ISBN
9780670063260 | 16 Aug 2007 | Viking Adult | Adult $24.95
 Why
Kerouac Matters
The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)
John Leland - Author
The author of Hip: The History reveals the lessons of the
original hipster bible, On the Road
Legions of youthful Americans have taken
On the Road as a
manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But
there is much more to the novel than that.
In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry,
insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it
still matters because at its core it is a book that is full of
lessons about how to grow up. Leland’s focus is on Sal Paradise, the
Kerouac alter ego, who has always been overshadowed by his fictional
running buddy Dean Moriarty. Leland examines the lessons that
Paradise absorbs and dispenses on his novelistic journey to manhood,
and how those lessons— about work and money, love and sex, art and
holiness—still reverberate today. He shows how On the Road is
a primer for male friendship and the cultivation of traditional
family values, and contends that the stereotype of the two wild and
crazy guys obscures the novel’s core themes of the search for
atonement, redemption, and divine revelation. Why Kerouac Matters
offers a new take on Kerouac’s famous novel, overturning many
misconceptions about it and making clear the themes Kerouac was
trying to impart.
Book: Hardcover | 5.51 x 8.26in | 224 pages |
ISBN 9780670063253 | 16 Aug 2007 | Viking Adult | Adult $23.95
Meet the author at the following events:
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9/16/2007 |
New York,
NY |
BROOKLYN
LITERARY FESTIVAL |
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9/17/2007 |
New York,
NY |
BARNES AND NOBLE #2619 Leland to read from Why Kerouac
Matters |
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9/19/2007 |
Washington,
DC |
OLSSONS BOOKS & RECORDS Leland to read from Why Kerouac
Matters |
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9/20/2007 |
Denver,
CO |
TATTERED COVER |
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9/22/2007 |
San Francisco,
CA |
BOOKSMITH Leland and Johnson to read
(off-site at All Saints Church) |
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10/4/2007 |
Philadelphia,
PA |
PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LIBRARY |
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10/14/2007 |
Denver,
CO |
DENVER
PUBLIC LIBRARY (event
with John Ventimiglia and David Amram) |
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On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007- October 14,
2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of
Jack
Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! The
Lowell stay has been extended to October for the Lowell Celebrates
Kerouac festival. Lots
of related events, check here
http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
September 5 - 9th: The City celebrates Jack Kerouac and the 50th Anniversary of his iconic novel.
Lowell, MA
Celebrations include:
- Wednesday, September 5th
10am-10pm: Marathon Reading of Kerouac's On the Road--50th anniversary of the novel's publication
- Thursday, September 6th
7pm: Montreal jazz bassist Normand Guilbeault's "Visions de Kerouac" bebop and spoken word show at McDonough Arts Magnet Theater (This event is free!)
- Friday, September 7th
7:30pm:
David Amram's Kerouac Jazz at Boarding House Park
- Saturday, September 8th: Jack Kerouac: Writers of the Next Generation
1:00pm-2:30pm, The Brush Art Gallery, located in the complex with the LNHP Visitor Center at 256 Market St. Readers: Ken Janjigian, Lawrence Carradini and J.D. Scrimgeour.
3:00pm-4:30pm Life Alive, 194 Middle Street. Readers: George Wallace, David Robinson, and Cesar Sanchez Beras.
6:00pm-7:30pm Brew?d Awakening Coffee Haus , 61 Market Street. Readers: Jay Atkinson, Paul Marion, Peter Loosigian, and Mark Schorr.
- Sunday, September 9th
1:00-3:00 p.m. Next Generation Writers continued....
Readers: Jean Monahan, Gigi Thibodeau, Richard Wollman, and Danielle Legros Georges. Boott Events Center, 115 John St, Lowell
2:30 Special viewing of On the Road: An Exhibition of Jack Kerouac's Original Scroll Manuscript. Members of the exhibition team will be on hand to answer your questions. Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street, Lowell. Free admission & refreshments
4pm: Kay Roberts' New England Orchestra Kerouac classical and jazz tribute concert at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Tickets $15 available at the door; $10 for students/seniors)
September 5, 2007, On The Road at
50: A Celebration of Jack Kerouac, New York, NY.
 A
TimesTalks Panel. The Lighthouse Theatre, 111 East 59 St., NY, NY
Featuring Douglas Brinkley, Billy Collins and Joyce Johnson
Moderated by John Leland. See most of the authors and editors
of the Kerouac book onslaught—Brinkley edited the Library of America
volume, Johnson’s memoir is being reissued for the anniversary and
moderator Leland’s new critical book on Kerouac is at the top of
Viking’s list—in one place on the big day.
September 5, 2007, Wednesday, VESUVIO TO
HOST LITERARY EVENT TO HONOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “ON THE ROAD” SAN
FRANCISCO – Vesuvio Café, long associated
with Jack Kerouac since the earliest days of the Beat generation, is
hosting The Ragged Promised Land, a live show to honor Kerouac’s On the
Road on the 50th Anniversary of the book’s first publishing.
The literary entertainment event scheduled for
September 5 features readings of excerpts from the book, punctuated
with live acoustic jazz. “The excerpts from On the Road have been
selected specifically to showcase Kerouac’s travels in California,”
says Rodger Jacobs, the show’s director. Jacobs, an award-winning
writer and documentary producer, will be performing the readings
along with Joe Shackel, Jim Reese, Gregg Martinez, and Jan Becker.
Vesuvio co-owner Janet Clyde is handling producing chores. Popular
acoustic jazz trio Alt Tal will be on hand to round out the show.
Event details: “The Ragged Promised Land,” 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Vesuvio
Café,
255 Columbus @ Kerouac Alley, 21 & Over/ID Required. No Cover Charge
Thursday,
September 6th, 10:00pm,
Celebration of the 50th
Anniversary of On The Road, New York,
NY: Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ Bleeker. Celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Tim Moran
accompanied by David Amram's Trio. John Ventimiglia ("Artie Bucco"
of "The Sopranos") reads, as well.
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
September 6, 2007, Back
On The Road, Boston MA.
Celebration of On The Road
sponsored by Harvard Bookstore at Brattle Theatre,
Featuring John Leland and Joyce Johnson.
Monday, September 10,
2007, 8 pm - A Tribute to Kerouac's On the Road, 8:00 pm. San Francisco,
CA.
With David Meltzer, Wavy Gravy,
Lenore Kandel, Joanna McClure and other surprise guests.
An exuberant
celebration of the 50th anniversary of publication of Jack Kerouac’s
immortal On the Road, featuring Bay Area poets, bebop jazz
musicians, and beat aficionados of all stripes. Lose yourself in the
Dionysian fire and musical magic of one of literature’s most
enduring and artistic movements. Jewish Community Center of San
Francisco, 3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA. (415)
292-1233.
$8 Members | $10 Public
Wednesday,
Sep 12 2007, 7:00pm, - Jack Kerouac's Road,
Medford, MA.
Saturday, September 22nd, 7pm,
Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of On The Road, San Francisco, CA.
San
Francisco, CA: All Saints Church, 1350 Waller Street. City
Lights, The Booksmith and Penguin Books celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road with Jon Leland, Joyce
Johnson, Michael McClure, Barry Gifford, and Suzanne Kleid.
 Book
related to this event: You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac
by Edie Kerouac-Parker, 2007 Edition. "We’ve officially entered
what might as well be called Jack Kerouac Awareness Month. It’s the
50th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Road,' and the
commemorations include . . . a memoir, 'You’ll Be Okay,' from
Kerouac’s first wife." – NY Times.
September 30, 2007, KEROUAC’S LAST CALL, Northport,
NY -
IN CELEBRATION
OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLISHING OF “ON THE ROAD,” JOIN US
FOR A SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT GUNTHER’S WITH KEROUAC. (Gunther’s Bar,
Jack Kerouac’s old hangout, 84 Main Street, Northport, Long Island.)
On Sunday,
September 30th, at 2:00 P.M., actor, director, Ed Dennehy, will
present a new play by Patrick Fenton entitled “KEROUAC’S LAST
CALL.” The play deals with Jack Kerouac’s time in Ozone Park,
Queens, Richmond Hill, and Northport, Long Island. It is the end
of the summer in 1964, a major cultural shift is starting to
happen, and on his last night in Northport, Long Island, the
America Kerouac saw through a rear view mirror along side of
Neal Cassady is slowly playing again in his mind. While
wondering back on his road days, he receives a series of
soul--searching phone calls from his daughter Jan.
“KEROUAC’S LAST CALL,” starring, Ed Dennehy, Jack
O’Connell, Sonja Tannenbaum, Drew Keil, Sophie Vanier, and
Michael Newman, music by Sue Sizza, is directed by Ed Dennehy.
Contact Patrick Fenton at
Stoopdreamer@aol.com 516-797-1483 Check it
out.
(With the help of the Image Theater in Lowell, Massachusetts,
Jack Kerouac’s hometown, a reading of the play recently took
place there, which starred actor, director Jerry Bisantz and was
directed by Ann Garvin.)
October
2007
Jack Safe in Heaven dead,
October 21, 1969
October 4 - 7, Memories of Lowell from the Road.
Lowell, MA
20th Annual
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
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Are you going to be in Lowell, MA, Jack's hometown?Join
the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Festival celebrates Jack Kerouac
life and writings.
Take the time to spend 4 days in Kerouac's hometown, walk the streets he
wrote about, and listen to lectures, see movies, go on a pub crawl and
drink in the same bars that Kerouac did. Visit
their website to see all the events -
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.
Kerouac was born in Lowell, and the city keeps
a strong Kerouac presence alive all year round with a park named
after the author. The original scroll is there right now, and will
be through the end of this annual festival, which features four days
of talks, readings, and events in what may be the most
Kerouac-oriented town in America.
On The Road Scroll tour, Lowell, MA - From June
7, 2007- October 14,
2007 - Lowell National
Historical Park and its partners will present an exhibition of
Jack
Kerouac's original scroll
manuscript of On the Road at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum! The
Lowell stay has been extended to October for the Lowell Celebrates
Kerouac festival. Lots
of related events, check here
http://www.ontheroadinlowell.org/events.html
October 19-21, 2007, Marathon Reading of On The
Road - Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center of Venice
California will be holding a marathon reading of On the Road
from October 19 through October 21. Poets, actors and original
Venice Beat Philomene Long (the Beat Nun) will be reading, and in
the Project Room there will be a "Road" inspired photo exhibit.
email -
beyondbaroque@aol.com
681 VENICE BLVD
VENICE, CA 90291
(310) 822-3006
email
kerouaczin@aol.com to list your
Kerouac event here!
November
2007
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road
on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper.
http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
November
27, 2007, Tuesday,
Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, 1957-2007,
New York Public Library
Length:
1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission, You choose
your seats when you get to the theater.
This event is
currently not on sale. Please check back soon for updated details.
https://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=BEA9
With the Library’s exhibition Beatific Soul:
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, 1957-2007, LIVE from the NYPL
will pay tribute to the career of Beat writer and poet Jack Kerouac
and the Beat Movement. Drawing on the contents of the Jack Kerouac
Archive, housed in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of
English and American Literature, many of Kerouac’s unpublished
manuscripts, diaries, journals, correspondence, drawings,
photographs, and treasured objects will be on display. The
exhibition’s title is derived from a characteristically awe-struck
observation by the narrator of On the Road, Sal Paradise,
about the novel’s central figure, Dean Moriarty, based on Kerouac’s
friend and (as Ginsberg called Whitman) “courage teacher”: “He was
BEAT—the root, the soul of Beatific.” Join us for an evening
celebration of the life and work of Jack Kerouac.
November 29, 2007, On The Road Discussion,
Sudbury, MA. Bill Schechter, History Department of
Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Ma will hold a two
night discussion of the Beat Generation and "On The Road".
This open "Book Club" will be held on Thursday night November
29, 2007 and Thursday night December 6, 2007. The event will be
held at the LSRHS library. This is a fundraiser for FELS
(Foundation for Educators at Lincoln Sudbury) which gives grants
to faculty and staff for personal and professional development.
December
2007
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road
on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper.
http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
December 6, 2007, On The Road Discussion, Sudbury, MA. Bill
Schechter, History Department of Lincoln Sudbury Regional High
School in Sudbury, Ma will hold a two night discussion of the Beat
Generation and "On The Road".
This open "Book Club" will be held on Thursday night November
29, 2007 and Thursday night December 6, 2007. The event will be
held at the LSRHS library. This is a fundraiser for FELS
(Foundation for Educators at Lincoln Sudbury) which gives grants
to faculty and staff for personal and professional development.
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January 2008
November 9, 2007 through March 16,
2008 - On the Road Scroll at the New York City
Public Library. Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road
on View from November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008; Includes Famous
Scroll Manuscript Typed on 120 Feet of Paper.
http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/Beatific_exhibition.cfm
Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and
personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose
pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the
United States, will be on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac
on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New
York Public Library November 9, 2007 through March 16, 2008.
email
kerouaczin@aol.com to list your
Kerouac event here!
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CITY
LIGHTS & THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB CELEBRATE HOWL'S 50TH!
Wednesday, November 15th, from 5:30-
7pm
November
1, Wednesday - Bill Morgan, editor/author of the recent
Howl On Trial, I Celebrate Myself, The Book of Martyrdom [noted
Allen Ginsberg Biographer] - Mr. Morgan
will be making an appearance to discuss his three books. Held at St.
Mark's Poetry Project, 131 E 10th Street (at Second Avenue), 8:00 pm,
(with Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, Bob Rosenthal, Lee
Renaldo, Simon Pettet, Eileen Myles, Steven Taylor, and others)