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Jack Kerouac was a central figure in what historians call the Beat movement – a cultural renaissance that celebrated poetry, jazz and a rejection of materialism. Had he lived, Kerouac would have been 100 years old this month. His fans plan to mark the occasion with – among other things – a presentation live and online from the Arts Center in Orange. Sandy Hausman talked with two Virginia scholars who are taking part.

HEDI EL KHOLTI: A lot of the obituaries written about Sylvère expressed the notion that he didn’t write a lot, or enough—that he regretted not having written The Book. McKenzie Wark, in her beautiful obituary for New Left Review, talked about Sylvère having written other writers instead. I love the sentiment, but I almost want to disagree. As I was reorganizing my bookshelf this week, I kept finding things Sylvère wrote. Just stumbling on them. There’s one in the 1997 ArtCenter publication Asteroid Impaired, called “Ball of Fat,” that riffs on the Maupassant story “Boule de Suif...

Yeager’s work spanned more than six decades, many styles, and several nations around the world. January 17, 2022….Ira Yeager passed away peacefully at his home in Calistoga, California, on January 5, 2022 at age 83, in the presence of close friends and secure in the knowledge that he was well-loved, much

Pull My Daisy 1959 Film Still The Lower East Side Heritage Film Series at Seward Park Library has a fun line-up this month.  This Tuesday they will focus on “Bubbies & Beats.” On the program: (1959, 29 min., 16mm) “Friday morning in the universe…” is the opening line of Jack Kerouac’s improvisational narration of a day in the life of the Beat poets. In a Bowery loft, a railyard worker plays host to the Beat poets, a visiting Bishop, his sister and mother. Awarded the first prize for Best Experimental Film for 1959 at the San Francisco Festival, the film is a “portrait of the i...