The White Knight and The Queen Ya know how our favorite Beats were not exactly role-model parents? How there aren’t a lot of heart-warming parent-child stories in Beatlandia? Well, … there is one. Carolyn Cassady and her son John were sumpthin else. Honestly I’m tearing up just now picturing them together. It […]
Entries from September 2013
Carolyn and John Cassady
September 27th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
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Carolyn Cassady tribute 1923 – 2013
September 20th, 2013 · 146 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
Another giant has fallen — another angel taken flight. Carolyn Cassady has just left us to join Neal and Jack on that great road trip in the sky. Her son John, the light of her life, was there by her side till the end. After a year’s refusal of entry into the U.K., just 3 […]
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Kill Your Darlings movie review
September 11th, 2013 · 21 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Allen & Lucien — I mean, Radcliffe & DeHaan — sharing a laugh at the premiere gala at TIFF, next to Michael C. Hall (Kammerer) and Jack Huston (Kerouac). . Just home from “Kill Your Darlings” — the second of three movies based on Jack & the Beats being released within a few months of each […]
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