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Letter to the editor

Back to Kerouac

By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor
Published October 25, 2007

Visions of Kerouac

David Amram (Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat), Christopher Felver (Beat) and John Leland (Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of "On the Road") will discuss Jack Kerouac, On the Road and the Beats at the Times Festival of Reading at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Campus Activities Center.

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Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Christopher Felver has devoted much of the past three decades to documenting the Beats, the group of artists, writers and musicians who reshaped American culture in the mid 20th century.

Felver's new book, Beat, carries on that chronicle with photos of most of the major characters among the Beats - Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and many more - and essays by Ferlinghetti, Amiri Baraka, David Amram and Carolyn Cassady.

Felver never met Jack Kerouac, the man perhaps most identified with the Beats. But Kerouac's spirit - a "new Buddha of American prose . . . creating a spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature," as Ginsberg wrote in his dedication for Howl - infuses the book and the memories of those who contributed to it.

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