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On the Road, as a movie, might have worked brilliantly in 1957 if Brando had accepted Kerouac's challenge. It might have tapped into the same energy the book did—the same sources that fueled Brando’s The Wild One (1953), the James Dean vehicle Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and The Blackboard Jungle (1955), with Sidney Poitier. But that didn’t happen. Instead, it was the lives of those involved in the Beat Generation that had cultural reality. The movies found that the best subject wasn’t really the books at all but the people who wrote them. That might seem normal nowadays: the personalization of everything is now total. But the Beats, oddly, were probably part of the process by which fictionality became entwined with everyday selfhood.
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Many in the mental health community, as well as politicians, journalist, and academics are increasingly questioning the state of President Trump’s mind and whether he is capable of continuing to be our President. A former Labor Secretary says he is “losing his mind”
Surely most ardent readers of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road have tried to map Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty's American journey. Above, partially alleviating your own need to take the pains of sketching out that great Beat journey yourself, we have a map drawn by the author himself.
Happy Friday! Let’s share another laugh and a look back at one of my favorite findings from my vast library of vintage resources. Through my research on Mary Brooks Picken, I discovered that she was instrumental in developing the “Du Barry Success Course”: a collection of printed booklets designed to help women improve themselves in […]
From late-night loft parties to crowded poetry nights, a new book featuring unseen work from photographer Burt Glinn depicts the era in all of its glory.
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How to make yourself the (new) Renaissance Man.
These inpsirational Milk and Honey quotes by Instagram poet Rupi Kaur will make you look at feminism in a whole new light.
They played a couple on Call The Midwife with viewers watching their relationship blossom. But it seems Helen George and Jack Ashton have developed a budding romance off the screen.
Each Friday I share a quote I love and some things I’ve found interesting from around the web. Here’s what I’ve bookmarked this week: A Breath of French Air is a new-ish blog that lets you...
