I still haven’t seen On the Road yet. It has had a limited airing and hasn’t come near where I live. I’m a bit more excited about Big Sur coming out this year. It was one of my favorite Keroauc books (after The Dharma Bums). Now if they’d only make that into a movie! I…

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Free books–a chapter at a time is Moon Willow Press’s new tool that allows you to freely read our books online, right here, right now–one chapter each week. We’ll even send a free copy of the book to the first 50 people who take advantage of this tool and read this book AND like it…

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The Readex Blog recently re-republished an interview with the “matriarch of the Beat Generation,” Carolyn Cassady. Cassady is nearing 90 but still hot. Sixty years after publication of Jack Kerouac’s influential novel of the Beat Generation, On the Road has been adapted for film. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Walter Salles, the…

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This is a kickstarter project by Heather Dalton: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nealcassady/neal-cassady-the-denver-years-0 This project is a documentary based on the autobiographical accounts of Neal Cassady and his troubled youth in Denver.  

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Here’s an interesting blog sent in by Loren Kantor, who is passionate for woodcutting and writing. He has done a carving of Jack Kerouac! His woodcut prints and portraits are for sale by request. Check it out.

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Book link Amazon link Clara Hume’s novel Back to Garden is newly published by Moon Willow Press. The book takes place near the end of the century and follows a dozen people living in a time when climate change and ecological devastation have resulted in not only a lack of natural resources necessary to live…

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Thanks to Viking Penguin for the review copy of Joyce Johnson’s new title. I just got the book so will review it later,  but for now some words from the publicist: Advance Praise for THE VOICE IS ALL “An exemplary biography of the Beat icon and his development as a writer . . . There’s…

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I guess this is old news, but I still remember from years ago big discussions on such a movie from the old beat newsgroups. I am not sure about it, but will most likely check it out! More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_%28film%29

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Ordering info: http://www.moonwillowpress.com/category/titles/the-philodendrist-heresy/ A new science-fiction title by Jed Brody, The Philodendrist Heresy, is available for pre-order (see above). Jed wrote the book as a prayer for the preservation and resurrection of the great forests of the earth. “Philodendrist” means “tree lover.” In The Philodendrist Heresy, Danielle Gasket’s search for ancestral secrets is imperiled by…

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One of the main reasons I’ve been enamored by beat authors for so long is because of their ecological writings. Essays and poems by Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, and many others, even Jack Kerouac’s romantic rucksack and back-to-nature writings, are ones I lobbed onto from a young age — and they carried me…

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Jack Kerouac’s novel, The Sea is My Brother, was published this last week posthumously. Thought to be lost at one time, it was discovered by Kerouac’s brother-in-law, Sebastian Sampas. The Sea is My Brother was Kerouac’s first novel and was penned in 1942-43 during his time at sea with the Merchant Marines on a trip…

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Just got back from seeing Rum Diary, a movie based on the novel that Hunter S. Thompson wrote in the early 60s; the novel was published in the late 90s, and the movie just came out (though seems to have a limited airing). The novel, inspired by Thompson’s journalistic experiences at a dying sports newspaper…

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A couple new Amazon reviews for Infernal Drums:

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I began a “Great Road Novels” list at Goodreads.com. Here is the link. You can vote on this list, which will increase its popularity, or even add new books. It’s open to the public.

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