Search Results by tag: Jack Kerouac

Book links round-up: hidden meanings, rhetorical devices, and more

A psychologist says pronoun usage speaks volumes about one's psyche NASA forms partnership with Tor-Forge Books to assist science fiction writers A New York Times columnist argues about how David Foster Wallace argued Review of ... Read More »

August 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Timothy Leary’s papers find a home at the New York Public Library

By Steven W. Beattie

He was perhaps best known for invoking the peace and love generation of the 1960s to "turn on, tune in, drop out," but Timothy Leary, the guru who advocated the mind-enhancing positive effects of LSD, ... Read More »

June 20, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Book links round-up: Neil Gaiman’s defence, Babstock at the DMV, and more

By Q&Q Staff

Neil Gaiman fights back against accusations that he's a thieving pencil-necked little weasel Happy foot, sad foot: how the podiatry sign became a literary symbol William T. Vollmann's new Kindle single is filled with danger ... Read More »

May 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Kerouac will ruled a fake

By Suzanne Gardner

A 15-year-long lawsuit over the estate of author Jack Kerouac has ended with a Florida judge ruling that the writer's mother's will was fraudulent. When she died in 1973, Kerouac's mother, Gabrielle Kerouac, left her ... Read More »

July 28, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Bookmarks: snobbery in the age of Kindle, Kerouac and the canon, and bigamy proves a boon

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: James Wolcott wonders, "What's a Culture Snob to Do?" in the age of Kindle, iPods, etc. Should Kerouac be kicked out of the canon? That old story: woman finds out her husband ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: BookNet Canada's Michael Tamblyn offers a fairly enthusiastic review of Indigo's new e-books for iPhones app Shortcovers. Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea. ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: a blog relaunches, a novel is rediscovered, and a nobel laureate gets skewered

By Stuart Woods

Some book-related links: Noble laureate Jean-Marie Le Clézio faces the inevitable backlash Five poets write The New York Times op-ed page A scandalous novel by Kerouac and Burroughs sees the light of day (excerpted here) ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Read the writing on my back

By Alison Jones

Rather than provide free advertising by wearing clothing from corporations that can easily afford to buy marketing campaigns, why not encourage literacy by wearing what you read? The website Literary Rags produces literary themed t-shirts ... Read More »

February 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

NYT notices Neil Young Nation

By Leigh Anne Williams

The good news: Kevin Chong's memoir Neil Young Nation, one of Greystone/Douglas & McIntyre's big fall titles, snagged a plum spot in The New York Times Book Review on the weekend. The bad news: the ... Read More »

November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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