Literary Friday, Edition 185
4 Reads for Black History Month (plus a giveaway!), the next American Crime Story, Kerouac Project's writer-in-residence, plus winter poems about foxes and daughters. Happy Literary Friday!
4 Reads for Black History Month (plus a giveaway!), the next American Crime Story, Kerouac Project's writer-in-residence, plus winter poems about foxes and daughters. Happy Literary Friday!
Find travel inspiration in the words of famous novels.
10 Big-Time Literary Drunks. Writing about the grotesque, a big announcement from Joshilyn Jackson, the world premiere of a new documentary about Alice Walker and a review of "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" in Literary News. Wendy Wax and the New Orleans Tennessee Williams Festival in Literary Events. And a pair of poems in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
It's a big year in film for Jack Kerouac fans. There's no better way to celebrate his birthday today than to reread your Kerouac favorites in anticipation for these upcoming adaptations.
"Diary Of A Mad Fat Girl" winners, a Tennessee Williams Giveaway, announcing the first Literary Friday Twitter Chat, two literary movie trailers and more.
A pioneer of the Beat Generation and best known for his novel, "On the Road," Jack Kerouac would have been 90 years old today. He was born in Massachusetts but died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Most people don't know this, but Florida was also where Kerouac was living when "On the Road" was published.