Reads tagged with “Jack Kerouac”
The Unphotographable: Jack Kerouac’s Soaring Diary Entry About Self-Understanding and the Elemental Vastness of the Windblown World
Sometimes, a painting in words is worth a thousand pictures. I think about this more and more, in our compulsively visual culture, which increasingly reduces what we think and feel and see — who and what we are — to what can be photographed. I think of Susan Sontag, who called it “aesthetic consumerism” half a century before Instagram. In a small act of resistance, I offer The Unphotographable — Saturdays, a lovely image in words drawn from centuries of literature: passages transcendent and transportive, depicting landscapes and experiences radiant with beauty and feeling beyond what a visual image could convey.
The Secret to Superhuman Strength: Alison Bechdel’s Illustrated Meditation on the Life of the Body, the Death of the Self, and Our Search for Meaning
“Also: This is it.”
Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate
An intoxicating homage to the ancient practice that milks the brain’s “good glad fluid.”
The Last Hotel: Patti Smith Sets Jack Kerouac to Song
Two great talents at the intersection of reality and dream.
The Odd Habits and Curious Customs of Famous Writers
Color-coded muses, rotten apples, self-imposed house arrest, and other creative techniques at the intersection of the superstitious and the pragmatic.
July 3, 1947: The Young Jack Kerouac Coins “Beat” While Grieving His Father
“My conscience of life and eternity is not a mistake, or a loneliness, or a foolishness — but a warm dear love of our poor predicament.”
Love, Kindness, and the Song of the Universe: The Night Jack Kerouac Kept a Young Woman from Taking Her Own Life
“I felt his pain deeply, and his beauty, and his knowledge.”
Are Writers Born or Made? Jack Kerouac on the Crucial Difference Between Talent and Genius
“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”
Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity”
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
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