Arts & Leisure
Friday Dec 21st, 2012
Jack Kerouac: On and Off the Road
Jack Kerouac, the novelist and poet who gave the Beat Generation its name, died 43 years ago on 21 October 1969 at the age of 47. On Friday, the long-delayed movie version of Kerouac’s autobiographical novel about crisscrossing the United States with his hipster friend Neal Cassady in the 1940s, On the Road will be released. When the novel was published in 1957, six years after he finished writing it, Kerouac dreamed up his own screen… read more »
Wednesday May 15th, 2013
Musings on the Eurovision Song Contest
Alyn Shipton on the history of Eurovision
