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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: beatniks

beatniks stories: 3 news summaries
OBITUARY

 Poet, Punk Rocker 
 Jim Carroll Dead at 60 

Won fame with The Basketball Diaries

Sep 14, 09 5:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll, 60, died of a heart attack Friday in his Manhattan home, the New York Times reports. Carroll is best known for The Basketball Diaries, a book about his experiences as a heroin-addicted basketball star in a New York City private school. A consummate New... More »

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obituary • poetry • Patti Smith • punk music • beatniks • Jim Carroll

On the Road Scroll on Display

Visitors can see the scroll of Kerouac's classic novel

Mar 9, 08 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beat lovers can check out the manuscript of Jack Kerouac's classic novel On the Road at the University of Texas, where it is displayed complete with scribbles and scratch outs. A long glass case allows visitors to view about a third of the book, which was written uninterrupted in a... More »

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travel • writing • University of Texas • Jack Kerouac • author • beatniks

Kerouac Was Klutzy Fatalist, Tragic Goofball

For On the Road's 50th, friends remember
the real Jack

Sep 5, 07 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - For today’s 50th anniversary of On the Road’s publication, Slate canvassed some of Jack Kerouac’s associates, creating a dramatic and nostalgic picture. The poet’s agent remembers he was thrown for a loop by the “demon” of “public reaction, celebrity,” and Carolyn Cassady recalls... More »

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literature • Jack Kerouac • hippies • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Carolyn Cassady • Neal Cassady • On the Road • anniversary • beatniks

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