Tag: Jack Kerouac

• Adventure Time

  Adventure Time might be the hippest cartoon on television. The art and animation are the stuff of dreams, the writing is witty (sometimes hilarious), but those two givens are only the beginning. Amid the zany adventures are moments of adolescent angst and parental regret, and sublimely understated songs that display a talent for lyrics, melody,…

  Bill Ectric

  August 17, 2014

  Adventure Time, Alan Moore, beat generation, beatbox, Beatles, Further, Hip Hop, Ice King, Jack Kerouac, jazz poets, Ken Kesey, Magical Mystery Tour, rap, William S. Burroughs

• The Beat Goes On

  My interview with musician/composer David Amram has been selected as one of the 18 pieces in this new book from Literary Kicks.  Read all about it at Amazon.com: Literary Kicks, a website born in 1994, was there to witness it all, standing at the crossroads of emerging Internet culture and Beat inspiration. Here’s the tale…

  Bill Ectric

  July 29, 2011

  allen ginsberg, beat generation, David Amram, Diane DiPrima, Gary Snyder, Grateful Dead, Jack Kerouac, Jack Micheline, Jamelah Earle, John Perry Barlow, Laki Vazakas, levi asher, Lew Welch, Marty Matz, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, on the road, Patricia Elliot, Philip Whalen, Ray Freed, Robert Creeley, Six Gallery, the beats, William S. Burroughs

• Peering Behind Childhood’s Curtain: Eric Lehman Reviews Kerouac’s “Dr. Sax”

  University of Bridgeport English Professor Eric D. Lehman reviews Jack Kerouac’s Dr. Sax on Empty Mirror Books: “Dr. Sax is one of Jack Kerouac’s most troubling books for readers, peering behind the curtain of his childhood rather than exploring those later years of Beats and bodhisattvas. Nevertheless, it remains a startling achievement, unique not only among Kerouac’s works, but among…

  Bill Ectric

  March 29, 2009

  beat generation, Book Reviews, childhood, Dr. Sax, Empty Mirror Books, Eric D. Lehman, imagination, Jack Kerouac, Lowell, MA, writing