Denver is hoping that fans of the Beat poets will stop by their fair city. To encourage that, they've posted a Beat Poetry Driving Tour. The sights include the hotel where Neal Cassady met his wife and the site of the department store where Cassady and Kerouac spent a summer working. In fact, most of … Continue reading If You Plan to Motor West…
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Nerd Alert
I'm probably late to the party with this news, but an announcement for Ken Burns' new book The National Parks: America's Best Idea alerted me to the companion PBS series. Six nights of rangers, parkitechture, and brown signage--what could be better? A coffee table book, that's what. The tome will be available September 8.A preview … Continue reading Nerd Alert
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How do you make a hundred-year-old novel appealing to today's readers? Japanese publisher Bunkasha is putting music stars on their covers, and they credit the stars with a ten-fold increase in sales. Natsume Soseki's novel Botchan, about a Tokyo teacher who moves to rural Japan and runs smack into the countryside's oldfashioned sterotypes and prejudices, … Continue reading That’s Hot
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