John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words---Brother Souls.- Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term -Beat Generation- to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother Souls is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and...
John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words---Bro...
In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During her stay she heard the singing of the slaves in their churches, as they rowed their boats from island to island, and as they worked and played. Already a skilled musician, she determined to preserve as much of the music as she could, quickly writing down words and melodies, some of them only fleeting improvisations. Upon...
In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea...
A fable, set in the 1950s, about Dale Betts, a young man who has pulled up his small town roots and is living in an apartment in Tulsa. He travels the center of Oklahoma for his day job and finds himself becoming drawn into the life of another small town, rather too much like his own. However, this one holds a well guarded secret which Dale is determined to discover. What is the story behind the Harry Bright Dances? This compelling tale picks you up and places you in the heart of the mid-West, with its big skies and small diners. A book for music lovers, but also a story about friendship and...
A fable, set in the 1950s, about Dale Betts, a young man who has pulled up his small town roots and is living in an apartment in Tulsa. He travels the...
In the 70s, noted American author and record producer Samuel Charters often visited London, a city he had come to know and love. Inspired by walking its streets between recording sessions, he began writing down poems in a small notebook. "As the months went by the poems grew. I never could predict just what it was that I had to get down on the notebook's pages. I only knew that it was something that had an overwhelming sense for me of what London was. What I hoped with the poems was to catch some of London's tumult, some of its silences, something of the sense of history that gave its streets...
In the 70s, noted American author and record producer Samuel Charters often visited London, a city he had come to know and love. Inspired by walking i...
