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On the Road: Book vs. Film
By Margaret Hedderman The trailer for the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s sprawling portrait of the Beat Generation, On The Road, was recently released. The film will follow May 23rd in France and Belgium, and later this year for the … Continue reading
A Personal Reading Year in Review, Part Two
By Geo Ong You didn’t think I was done, did you? There’s more. In addition to the categories I’ve covered last week, here are some more reading trends to share with you. The Travelling Writer Travel literature is a mainstay … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Travel
Tagged a field guide to getting lost, a walk in the woods, bbc, Bill Bryson, books, bruce chatwin, eadweard muybridge, edmund white, geoff nicholson, gertrude stein, helene hanff, in patagonia, Jack Kerouac, notes on a dirty island, paris, paris france, reading, rebecca solnit, river of shadows, satori in paris, the duchess of bloomsbury street, the flaneur, the lost art of walking, travel literature
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The Urchin Travel Wish List
‘Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark’ Don’t mind if I do! As long as you don’t go by Shakespeare’s depiction of Denmark, the Scandinavian country is supposed to be … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Travel
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, baltic sea, bornholm, copenhagen, denmark, expatriates, fyodor dostoyevsky, Hamlet, Jack Kerouac, mohamed choukri, morocco, naked lunch, notes from underground, paul bowles, russia, st. petersburg, tangier, tennessee williams, white nights, white nights festival, william burroughs, william shakespeare
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That’s What He Said
…what a miracle are different languages and what an amazing Tower of Babel this world is. [...] That people actually understand what their tongues are babbling. And that eyes do shine to understand, and that responses are made which indicate … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, That's What They Said, Travel
Tagged humans, Jack Kerouac, language, life, relationships, satori in paris, tower of babel, understanding
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Would Your Mind Follow Your Feet If They Wander?
Words and images by Geo Ong In the introductory chapter of his book Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris, Graham Robb recounts his time as a younger man in the City of Light: ‘I came to know Paris well enough … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Travel
Tagged brest, France, french, graham robb, Jack Kerouac, paris, parisians, safety, satori in paris, tourists, walking
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That’s What He Said
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. –Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Posted in Sarah, That's What They Said, Travel
Tagged Jack Kerouac, on the road, road trips, Travel
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The Urchin Book Trunk
As we mentioned earlier, the Urchins are embarking on our first ever Urchin road trip. In preparation for our journey, we look to the interesting minds that have done it before us. Here it is – the Urchin Book Trunk! … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, Literature, Travel
Tagged air-conditioned nightmare, america, america day by day, Beat Generation, beats, bennington, Bill Bryson, books, dogs, edna st vincent millay, electric kool-aid acid test, england, essays, expatriates, frasier, gothic literature, henry david thoreau, henry miller, Jack Kerouac, john steinbeck, london, mark twain, new journalism, nonfiction, novels, on the road, poetry, poodles, pulitzer prize, riding toward everywhere, road trip, roughing it, sal paradise, shirley jackson, simone de beauvoir, sixties, stephen fry, stephen fry in america, the lost continent, tom wolfe, train hopping, travel literature, travels with charley, urchin book trunk, urchin bookshelf, Vermont, walden, we have always lived in the castle, william t vollmann
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The Urchins Take Their Show on the Road!
I’m going to take a chance and reacquaint myself with an old friend of mine: America! —Frasier Crane on the road Despite being connected via brainpower, the Urchins have not all been in the same place at the same time … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Travel
Tagged america, bennington, books, frasier, frasier crane, Jack Kerouac, mark twain, nashville, road trip, simone de beavoir, tennessee, travel literature, urchin bookshelf, Vermont
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Hippies v. Hipsters: The Generation the Revolution Died?
By Sarah Jost In the 1950s, the Beat Generation renounced a focus on material possessions and conformity in favor of a life of bohemian creativity and experimentation. A direct result of the seriousness and repression of the World War II era, … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Music, Sarah
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, animal cruelty, anti-establishment, Arcade Fire, Beat Generation, civil rights movement, fixed-gear bicycles, folk, hippies, Hipsters, hunger and poverty, Iraqi War, Jack Kerouac, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, oil spill, polar bears, Punk, the draft, Vietnam War, white privilege, William S. Burroughs, World War II
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