Intellectual Curiosities and Provocations

January 1997

Beat News: January 7 1997

Audio Literature,
Beat Generation,
Litkicks,
Music,
New York City,
News,
Poetry
1. Just in from Rykodisc: the very cool track list for a new Jack Kerouac tribute CD, due to be released March 18. Check out this lineup! The name of the CD will be "KICKS JOY DARKNESS."

Morphine - Kerouac (original piece)
Lydia Lunch - Bowery Blues
Michael Stipe - My Gang
Steven Tyler - Unpublished dream: "Us kids swim off a gray pier..."
Hunter S. Thompson- Ode To Jack (original piece)
Maggie Estep & the Spitters - Skid Row Wine

This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: January 29 1997. The previous post in the series is Beat News: December 13 1996.

Beat News: January 29 1997

Beat Generation,
Film,
News
1. As unbelievable as this may sound, we are about to see a new book by J. D. Salinger. Granted, J. D. Salinger is not a Beat writer, and even trashed the Beats occasionally as crude pretenders (I think he was jealous of their fame, which came a few years after his). But in terms of sensibility and style, I think books like "Catcher in the Rye" and "Franny and Zooey" have an obvious proto-Beat essence.

This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: February 28 1997. The previous post in the series is Beat News: January 7 1997.