How To Use Kerouac In A Sentence
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Wherever people neglect to mow the grass, or curse the car payments, you're in Kerouac's Orlando because they, like him, were once from someplace else.
February 2007
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He was a contemporary of Charles Olson, had corresponded with W.C. Williams and had been in bar fights with Jack Kerouac.
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He does frequently employ the declarative mode, but this approach also prompts Kerouac to long, cumulative sentences that invoke a kind of lyricism:
Style in Fiction
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Heavily influenced by Jack Kerouac and the Beats as well as the political Left, Dylan struck a pose of alienation and nonconformity that has served as a model for so many popular musicians since.
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It is dangerous to impute "development" in Kerouac's work, since the publication dates and the dates of composition of his books are so much at variance.
Style in Fiction
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That unknown trim blonde with an interest in wine and Jack Kerouac may be nothing more than an attractive front for a bit of script that automates Facebook friend requests by instructing a computer to search for all users with a certain characteristic -- the name "Katie," for example -- then directs it to connect with everyone who turns up in the search results.
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This snippet from her poem "Rape," for example, reads more like Kerouac or Ginsberg whom she actually knew well than anyone else: let's whalebone let's go let's deodorize the night.
John Lundberg: The Poetry of Patti Smith
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Kerouac was arrested as an accessary to the killing in 1944 and was put in a Bronx jail but he was freed after his girlfriend, Edie Parker, stood bail.
March 2008
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But like David Lynch and Jack Kerouac, Callahan, whom I only know in passing, is grossly misunderstood by his fans.
GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 4.
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Someday some hypermanic kid will produce a moronically maxed-out adventure odyssey that will spark the overdue rebellion among all the over-pressured SAT grinds, and us grumpy midlife critics will get to witness a new Kerouac, and the greatest pent-up young-life crisis in the history of the world.
10-3-07 The Found Generation
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Between its functioning as a companion piece to the documentary and standing alone as a portrait of the man's California dry-out, the music of One Fast Move Or I'm Gone -- its title poached from one of Big Sur's lines -- eerily digs into Kerouac's story, at times, insinuating things better than the author's own words.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums
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Kerouac is chatting up a woman in a super-tight white dress.
Travis Nichols: Howl on the Red Carpet
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Salvation of a sort came when he discovered Kerouac and Ginsberg in the Sixties, literary hipsters from the previous decade.
October 2006
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This is probably my sixth or seventh book, but as Jack Kerouac says, you've just got to stick at it with the energy of a benny addict.
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I have evidence that Viking Penguin publishers is deliberately removing my name from books on the Beat generation and Jack Kerouac," said Nicosia, 57, who lives in Corte Madera with his wife and two children.
Windmills
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Associated Press Jack Kerouac There's plenty to be said for a dog-eared, motor-oil-stained, well-underlined copy of "On the Road," but there are a few things the vintage version doesn't offer.
'On the Road,' Unleashed
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Though Kerouac and Ginsberg each sought to elevate the term "Beat Generation" into something "beatific," John Clellon Holmes, who gave the term currency in a 1952 article, paraphrased Kerouac saying, "It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and ultimately, of soul," a feeling of being beaten down to the bedrock of consciousness.
Post-gazette.com - News
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So, normally I don't actually "choose" my reading material, but sometimes it's even better that way, as I tend to get in ruts of reading the same author (* cough* Kerouac * cough*.)
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: July, 1998
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His fellow starving writers were beginning to attract fame as the 'Beat Generation,' a label Kerouac had invented years earlier during a conversation with fellow novelist John Clellon Holmes.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Brando was the perfect icon for the 'beat' generation of Jack Kerouac, William S Burroughs and Allan Ginsberg.
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She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973.
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You would think it would be tough to make the lives and work of writers like Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs seem uninteresting, but writer Harvey Pekar, artist Ed Piskor -- along with other contributors like Joyce Brabner, Trina Robbins, Mary Fleener and Peter Kuper -- seem more than up to the task.
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Influenced by the beat poets like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Ted Jones, McGough would write late into the night.
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The collective narcissism of the Kerouac circle is ultimately boring.
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Also, Kerouac is certainly a better choice than Sholokhov.
How it might have been ...
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For Kerouac, the word ‘beat’ was freighted with meaning.
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Jack Kerouac's On the Road was an influential book in the 1960s.
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Sampas, reached by phone at his home in Kerouac's native Lowell, Mass., last week, denied Nicosia's allegations.
Windmills
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It sounds very typical Kerouac, but then again it is easy to pastiche.
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Ammons, like Kerouac, seems to have "gotten sick and tired of the conventional English sentence which seemed to me so iron-bound in its rules."
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A time when so much was on the line for so many yet amidst all the turmoil the culture reawakened (green again) to promises of another better, perhaps “older” way to live: the ancient message of sanity and sanctity re-connected by the Transcendentalist transformers of our time (Kerouac, Ginsburg Snyder, et. al) to the greater oversoul humming and glowing in the works of Emerson and Thoreau.
Gary snyder | smokey the bear sutra « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Knowing that Kerouac wrote On the Road in a three-week frenzy of benzedrine and who knows what else, I admit I was prejudiced from the get-go.
The Beat Goes On « So Many Books
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Beat’s outer trappings — black turtlenecks, cigarette pants, neckerchiefs, berets — is indebted less to Jack Kerouac and his wayward cohort, who slouched about in frayed flannel shirts, than to stylized interpretations in movies like “Funny Face” or the less well-known “Subterraneans,’’ a 1960 film based on a Kerouac novel about the kinky denizens of North Beach in San Francisco.
August 2006
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Here's video of the On the Road scroll being unrolled recently for its display in Kerouac's birthplace, Lowell, Mass.
Rollin, Rollin, Rollin
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Kerouac was a proper beatnik, an existential alchemist of the highway who turned motel dirt into pay dirt by making something heroic-sounding out of his grubby little blunderings about Nowheresville, USA.
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The Chinese press did tout me as a sixties icon, however, and posted my picture all over the place with Joan Baez, Che Guevara, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.