Floyd.
27th May 2005, 04:18
Hopefully this will cut down on fluff threads, as this is intended for general announcements about lit and film being upcoming stuff mainly in mind and if something is posted in here and attracts enough discussion then it will be split into it's own thread.
I'll kick this off with something I found and thought it would make a nice addition to start the thread. The idea is you post the information and a link to your source with possibly a pisc as well if you can be bothered.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1375648.htm
"Kerouac Play Discovered In Warehouse
A previously unknown play by Jack Kerouac, written in the same year as his classic novel On The Road was published, has been discovered languishing in a warehouse more than three decades after his death.
Magazine Best Life says the play - called Beat Generation - came to light when Kerouac's agent Sterling Lord was going through old files in a warehouse in New Jersey.
The magazine plans to publish an excerpt from the play in its July issue.
The play details "a day in the drink-and-drug-hazed life of his own literary alter ego, Jack Duluoz, as he parties and gambles with thinly veiled characters based on Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and other Beat legends", the magazine said.
Editor Stephen Perrine said he met Lord for lunch several weeks ago and it occurred to him to ask whether he had any undiscovered manuscripts.
"Sterling remarked, 'That's so strange that you should ask that,"' Perrine said.
Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of 47, wrote the play in 1957, the same year On The Road, a thinly fictionalised autobiography about a cross-country journey that became a classic of American 20th-century literature, was published.
The magazine said in a statement that Lord recalled that the play had been sent to Marlon Brando before Kerouac asked Lord to shelve the project and it lay waiting in his files, forgotten for nearly 50 years.
The entire play will be published in October by Thunder's Mouth Press.
"This is a major work by one of the biggest names in American literary history, and here it is, unread, gathering dust for nearly half a century," Perrine said."
I'll kick this off with something I found and thought it would make a nice addition to start the thread. The idea is you post the information and a link to your source with possibly a pisc as well if you can be bothered.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1375648.htm
"Kerouac Play Discovered In Warehouse
A previously unknown play by Jack Kerouac, written in the same year as his classic novel On The Road was published, has been discovered languishing in a warehouse more than three decades after his death.
Magazine Best Life says the play - called Beat Generation - came to light when Kerouac's agent Sterling Lord was going through old files in a warehouse in New Jersey.
The magazine plans to publish an excerpt from the play in its July issue.
The play details "a day in the drink-and-drug-hazed life of his own literary alter ego, Jack Duluoz, as he parties and gambles with thinly veiled characters based on Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and other Beat legends", the magazine said.
Editor Stephen Perrine said he met Lord for lunch several weeks ago and it occurred to him to ask whether he had any undiscovered manuscripts.
"Sterling remarked, 'That's so strange that you should ask that,"' Perrine said.
Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of 47, wrote the play in 1957, the same year On The Road, a thinly fictionalised autobiography about a cross-country journey that became a classic of American 20th-century literature, was published.
The magazine said in a statement that Lord recalled that the play had been sent to Marlon Brando before Kerouac asked Lord to shelve the project and it lay waiting in his files, forgotten for nearly 50 years.
The entire play will be published in October by Thunder's Mouth Press.
"This is a major work by one of the biggest names in American literary history, and here it is, unread, gathering dust for nearly half a century," Perrine said."