THE DAILY BEAT: Jack Kerouac: Feminist redux

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Jack Kerouac: Feminist redux

If you missed my post from February 8, 2009, titled "Jack Kerouac: Feminist," you missed a link to a great little piece by Dr. Audrey Sprenger, a Kerouac scholar with something important to say to those who would rail against beat literature as anti-feminist. Unfortunately, that link had gone dead, but Dr. Sprenger just provided me with a link to an updated version of her article, which she posted in reference to the upcoming On The Road movie. You can read it here, and I have also replaced the dead link in my February 8, 2009 post.

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Reviews of The Beat Handbook

Gerald Nicosia, author of the acclaimed Kerouac biography Memory Babe, said The Beat Handbook is "full of Jack's heart."

Jared Randall, author of the excellent book of poetry, Apocryphal Road Code, said this about The Beat Handbook: "Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time. In my wandering pack of experiences, I find they often do. Enter The Beat Handbook by Rick Dale."

Kenneth Morris, Kerouacian extraordinaire, said this:
"I just finished reading Rick Dale's beautiful utterance and call to action of Kerouac mind-set and zen sensibilities. It made me laugh and reflect on my own life and road I have naturally grooved into after absorbing the Kerouac canon. The road less traveled always had my name on it. And that has made all the difference. The Beat Handbook 100 Days of Kerouactions reaffirms the attitudes and ideology that made the Beats and Kerouac the important men of ideas that America (and the world) thirsted for, needed, and swallowed whole. Beautiful, absorbing, Top Ten whipsmart from my articulate, tender-hearted friend and fellow traveler. Highly recommended."