I’d been at Caere for about four months when I went out for drinks with the after-work party crowd at the Black Watch, a dirty, sleazy, scummy little bar which is for some reason wildly popular with the local yuppies and college crowd. People were astonished to … Read the rest
Pat Gallagher went to Lowell recently, and took this photo of Jack Kerouac’s grave. She’d placed Neal’s two posthumous books, “The First Third” (his unfinished autobiography) and “Grace Beats Karma” (his letters from Prison) on the gravestone, and I found this reuniting of the two old friends, who’d died a … Read the rest
WHAT’S UP?
So what have you been up to lately? Where do you work, what do you do for fun, etc.?
Let’s start at the beginning. First, the Earth cooled …
No, we’ll skip to my birth in San Francisco, 9/9/51. By about age three we had settled in Los … Read the rest
I think it had something to do with Jerry Garcia dying. It was in the days following that, anyway, that I received an e-mail from a stranger named Pat Gallagher. I get lots of e-mail about my Literary Kicks web site, sometimes too much, and often I have to remind … Read the rest
In August 1995 I began corresponding via e-mail with John Cassady, the son of late Beat hero Neal Cassady. John still lives and works in the vicinity of Los Gatos, the legendary homestead of the Cassady family. He has not spoken much in public about the legacy of his … Read the rest
1. I’m happy to kick off the new year with ‘A Note From Los Gatos‘ an interview with John Cassady, a resident of Northern California who happens to be the son of Neal Cassady.
2. J. D. Salinger and Jack Kerouac had a lot in common — … Read the rest
