Tag: Jack Kerouac
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Observations of a wildfire lookout: Eyes in the sky for vast Four Corners area | RICK FREIMUTH
The writers Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder and Norman McLean all staffed high-elevation fire lookouts in the West — their experiences rich fuel for their work. But Jack Kerouac’s reaction makes me smile. After he searched for smokes from Desolation Peak Lookout in Washington during one summer in the 1950s, Kerouac complained that his brain was…
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Bob Dylan has written 600 songs. These are his 10 best. | Vince Bzdek
My family and I have been revisiting “Highway 61 Revisited” and lots of other Bob Dylan music in anticipation of James Mangold’s new biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” which opened on Christmas. “Highway 61 Revisited” features the great groundbreaking rant of a song, “Like a Rolling Stone,” from which the movie’s title and climactic moment are…