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Posted by: rus bowden Aug 26 07, 09:26

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September 5th will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

Alfred Lubrano of the Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on "On the Road", for which he interviewed "Anne Waldman, a poetry professor and cofounder with Kerouac contemporary Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics"; "Hilary Holladay, an English professor and director of the Kerouac Center for American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell"; Erin Gautsche, program coordinator of Kelly Writers House, a literary arts organization housed at the University of Pennsylvania" and none other than Kerouac's younger brother-in-law and executor of his estate, John Sampas:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20070826_The_one_less_traveled_by_Readers_head_down_Jack_Kerouacs__quot_Road_quo__again_as_the_book_turns_50__propelled_by_the_jazzy_go-go_spirit__perhaps_repelled_by_the_immaturity_and_datedness_.html

Companion to Alfred's article is a very nice slideshow, by the Inquirer's Eric Mencher, which has some Kerouac poetry from "On the Road":

http://www.philly.com/philly/gallery/Kerouac.html?popup=y&c=y

And Frank Wilson has opened the blog discussion on this here:

http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2007/08/todays-inquirer-reviews-part-i.html


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