. Everybody’s known for ages that Jack Kerouac’s 100th birthday was coming up on March 12th, 2022, but it was still the dark Covid times, and I hadn’t been On The Road in over two years — not since the New Hampshire Democratic primaries in February 2020 — plus I was really in no mood […]
Kerouac’s 100th birthday celebration in Lowell
March 20th, 2022 · 25 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
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Holly George-Warren Jack Kerouac biography
June 9th, 2021 · 14 Comments · Interviews, Kerouac and The Beats
In some of the best news in Beatlandia in many a year — it’s just been announced that (A) the Kerouac estate has signed the inimitable Holly George-Warren to be the official biographer of Jack — a role originally filled by Doug Brinkley back in the ’90s until he got lured away by some other […]
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Woodstock and Obama’s Inauguration
July 30th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Music, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
Obama’s election night in New York City may have been my favorite single night / moment in 25+ years of living in Manhattan. (You can read about it here: https://brianhassett.com//2008/11/election-night-2008/ ) That feeling was extended to a week-long celebration in my second favorite city, Washington, D.C. — a home-game in the History League — And lo, […]
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