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The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

The Independent UK

‘His soulful best’: Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist writings to be published for the first time

Fifty years after his death, On the Road author’s spiritual reflections show him in a whole new light

The Guardian - UK

“Sometimes the ‘you’ in my songs is me talking to me. Other times I can be talking to somebody else. It’s up to you to figure out who’s who”: The epic story of Bob Dylan’s holy trinity of mystical, magical mid-60s albums

How Bob Dylan changed the course of music forever with Bringing It Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde

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30 iconic bars of New York City immortalized in new photography book

Photography powerhouses James and Karla Murray continue to document New York, this time celebrating 30 iconic watering holes

Digital Camera World

Poetry fan Matt Peat hoping Wigan go with the flow at Wembley

Peat is willing to implement fresh ideas with the Warriors.

The Independent UK

Caleb Carr, military historian and author of bestselling novel 'The Alienist,' dies at 68

Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat Masha, has died

The Independent UK

For 30 years I saw my kidnapping as character-building – until I finally faced what happened to me

As a gen X feminist who survived and ignored a violent assault in the 80s, I didn’t identify as a victim – but #MeToo gave me a crucial new perspective

The Guardian - AU

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Sputnik Sweetheart at the Arcola Theatre review: a scrappy and coolly sexy take on Murakami's cult classic

This story of loneliness, desire and longing is strange, beguiling and surprisingly warm

Evening Standard

Guide to the classics: Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey – a dense, strange journey through addiction

Drugs are nothing new. As researchers Russil Durrant and Jo Thakker tell us in their 2003 book Substance Use Abuse, drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, opium and cannabis have been used for thousands of years throughout the world. They also show we have known about addiction for a long time…

The Conversation

Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102

The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died

The Independent UK

Luke Carman, the circle of life, and the world as an ecstatic masterpiece

It’s one of those circle of life kind of things, the antagonist Hopper says in Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, explaining how his gang of marauding grasshoppers exploit the ants with a dry cynicism that Luke Carman might appreciate. It wasn’t until I reached the final story in Carman’s collection An…

The Conversation

Florida Keys: the eco way to do a great American road trip

When Jack Kerouac went On the Road he chose a gas-guzzling 5-litre Hudson. Hunter S Thompson’s ‘Red Shark’ Chevrolet in ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ sported a thirsty 6-litre V8, just like Thelma and Louise’s emission-belching Ford Thunderbird.

Evening Standard

It's not all nomadland: how #vanlife made mobile living a middle-class aspiration

Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern.

The Conversation

Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years

The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men

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The Independent UK

Jack Kerouac at 100: How a heady cocktail of trauma, faith and rotgut wine made a literary legend

A century after the ‘On The Road’ author’s birth, Kerouac’s close friend and collaborator David Amram talks to Kevin E G Perry about their ‘stoned-out’ parties, his misunderstood Catholic faith and his work’s enduring relevance

The Guardian - UK

The road well travelled: 100 years of Jack Kerouac

Nature-loving mystic or proto-dudebro? Untameable free spirit or reclusive mama’s boy? On the centenary of his birth, it is time to look past the icon at the ‘bleeding ball of contradictions’ behind it

The Independent UK

Hit the road with Jack Kerouac: fine writer, lousy hitchhiker

The Man Who Pays His Way: ‘One of the biggest troubles hitchhiking is having to talk to innumerable people,’ complains the author of ‘On The Road’

The Independent UK

Jack Kerouac at 100: How a heady cocktail of trauma, faith and rotgut wine made a literary legend

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