. I Pick Pic . Thirty years ago I remember saying to my Beat brothers at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village that I thought Vanity of Duluoz was right up there with Jack’s greatest works. And they all looked at me like I was crazy and said, “Yeah, but nobody else thinks that.” 🙂 […]
Entries from September 2016
Jack Kerouac’s novella “Pic” Reconsidered
September 25th, 2016 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
Tags: Big Sur·Catcher In The Rye·Dharma Bums·Duluoz Legend·Huckleberry Finn·Jack Kerouac·John Lennon·New York·On The Road scroll·storytelling·Vanity of Duluoz
Gary Hart rally 1984 Washington Square
September 11th, 2016 · 12 Comments · New York City, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
How Rock Concerts Led To Politics . For most of ’80s I lived in Phyllis & Eddie Condon’s palatial apartment on Washington Square North. The NYU Program Board from where I ran the concerts was in the Loeb Student Center on Washington Square South — about a 3-minute walk away — if you didn’t dawdle […]
Tags: Bernie Sanders·Election 2016·Grateful Dead·Greenwich Village·Hillary Clinton·Washington Square Park·Winnipeg