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Fla. judge rules will on Kerouac's estate is fake

There are new questions about the estate of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac after a Florida judge ruled that his mother's will was fraudulent.

Writers find inspiration in Kerouac's Orlando home

This city in a region of mouse ears and outlet malls was once home to Jack Kerouac, and it may be incubating a successor.

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Jack Kerouac's legendary 'scroll' comes to Columbia College, typos and all
Source: Chicago Tribune

The manuscript being prepared for display at Columbia College on Thursday morning wasn't some ancient religious text, but what some call the "holy grail" of 20th century American literature: the 120-foot scroll upon which Jack Kerouac typed his seminal novel, "On the Road," in 19 …

RealityStudio ยป Charles Plymell: The Benzedrine Highway Interview (Revised)
Source: realitystudio.org

Following an overview of Charles Plymell and NOW magazine, contributor Paul Hawkins offers "Charles Plymell: The Benzedrine Highway Interview." Revised especially for RealityStudio, the interview now contains additional material about Plymell and William S. Burroughs.

Charles Plymell : The Benzedrine Highway Interview
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Writer Charles Plymell is a legendary figure. He was involved with a loose gang of experimental writers and outsider artists centered around Wichita, Kansas in post war 1950`s America.

Playboy archives 1950s Magazines on DVD-ROM
Source: TheState.com

Bondi Digital Publishing of New York, a three-year-old company that publishes magazine archives in digital editions, will be putting out a DVD-ROM set with page-by-page reproductions of all 72 issues of Playboy published in the 1950s.

Frugal Traveler: Cross-American Road Trip On the Cheap
Source: The New York Times

The first installment on a 12-week road trip on the cheap across America.

And we are writers, one and all

There must be nothing in the world like stealing your kid's hollow chocolate Easter bunny on Easter Eve and turning it into a quick bong. Ripped off the end of one of the ears and turned it into a longer, detachable tail, and suddenly I'm back on track in this writing business.

Kerouac and Disney, two visions of America
Source: syntaxofthings.typepad.com

The National Geographic has an interesting article on the explosive growth of Orlando, Florida, and how one man named Disney with his big ideas was largely responsible for converting what was vast swampland into what has become, for better or for worse, a model of the American me …

Searching for the 21st century novel. By Walter Kirn and Gary Shteyngart
Source: Slate

Apparently literary critics are desperately searching for the new novel form. Maybe we should stop being so damn meta about everything and just write?

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