Product Description
by Kevin Ring (Author)
Jack Kerouac 1922-1969. On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Visions of Cody, Desolation Angels, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, Mexico City Blues, The Town and the City, Vanity of Duluoz and many more. Coming from the notebooks, the burning typewriter, the racing imagination of Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a '... strange, solitary, catholic mystic ...' - he was celebrated, then destroyed by fame, neglected in the years that followed and then rediscovered. We are still discovering who he is today.
Author Biography
Kevin Ring born 1951, is the editor of Beat Scene Magazine, a printed paper journal, running since 1988 in Coventry, England. He has been writing about Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation since 1972, since he first read On the Road and was dazzled by it. His magazine is dedicated to the work, the history and the cultural influences of the Beat Generation. This has included Kerouac, Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Also featured have been Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Lenny Bruce, Ken Kesey, Jack Hirschman, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima and many others. He also publishes a series of limited edition chapbooks by and about the Beats. Amongst those in the series are Dan Fante, Gary Snyder, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Bukowski, Michael McClure, Kerouac, John Clellon Holmes and Richard Brautigan. www.beatscene.net
