1. According to the New York Times, the writer Terry Southern has died. I've been meaning to write a page on him anyway, so here it is.2. The new Jack Kerouac CD-ROM is finally out.
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Bob Kaufman was born on April 18, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was, other than Langston Hughes, the greatest jazz poet who ever lived ...
1. I'm proud to present in these pages an original work of fiction by Jan Kerouac. This is an excerpt from Jan's newest and not-yet-published novel Parrot Fever, and the reason I'm proud to present it is not that she's Jack's daughter, but rather that I like the story very much. I hadn't read any of Jan's fiction before, and was surprised and pleased by this clever and gently hopeful piece. Here it is. 2.
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