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Foreign Film Titles of On the Road
The other day I was editing a book that mentioned an 80s movie. This particular book happened to have been translated into English, though, and the title of the movie was botched! The tricky thing...
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Harold Pinter’s Proust Screenplay Shows at the 92nd Street Y
image via 92nd Street Y If you recall that Jack Kerouac, a native French speaker, read Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, you may be interested in Harold Pinter’s screenplay of it at the 92nd...
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Surrealist Film at Pravda: Thoughts on Breton’s Automatism and Kerouac’s...
Pravda ran a Surrealist and Experimental film night series over the summer, and although I’m terribly late in posting about it, my friend and I had such a great time that I figured better late than...
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Before the Beats, Rimbaud Had a “Bohemian Life”
Photo by Etienne Carjat (1871) Rimbaud’s kinda cute, eh? Before Jack Kerouac coined the term “Beat Generation” during a conversation on the Lost Generation with fellow writer John Clellon Holmes,...
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How Antonin Artaud Came to Influence the Beats
Antonin Artaud had great fashion sense. Bronx-born writer Carl Solomon joined the United States Maritime Service in 1944 and traveled overseas to Paris, where he was encountered Surrealism and Dadaism....
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