Quick hit to say:
The Allen Ginsberg weekly newsletter of goodness included a gracious name check and link to my round up about the Dharma Bums and other Kerouac artifact auction at Sotheby’s, saying:
Upcoming at auction at Sotheby’s “Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American filmmaker” (one is tempted to ask who, of course), scheduled for next Friday, December the 8th.
“This collection features an impressive assemblage of Jack Kerouac materials”, the auction house notes, “including signed letters, inscribed copies of his novels, and, most notably, the original typescript scroll manuscript of The Dharma Bums“. For a full viewing of the Kerouac items see here
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More on the auction (and the background to the auction) from Dave Olson’s Creative Life Archive – here
The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 554
For the record, I added this to the comments:
“Thanks for including my round up at my “creative life archive” – Dharma Bums is a really special book for me as it begins in the “beat journey to Japan” of which now I am sort of an accidental inheritor of the tradition.
And connects Cascadia to Bay Area too with mountains, rain, coast lines, freighters. Zen indeed!
While “On the Road” starts in the east looking – somewhat romantically and naively – at the ‘west’, Dharma Bums starts on the left coast and looks to the ‘far, far west’ (to paraphrase Sensei Gary Snyder).
Two other notes:
* If you’re curious about the “Six Poets at Six Gallery” reading fictionalized in DB, I made a full background your video full of artifacts and ephemera, rabbit holes to explore, digressions and evidence and roots and branches
* And, for heaven sakes, please please please do not a bid on the postcard”
me, at Allen Ginsberg.org
Plus painter Jonathan Collins, with whom i enjoy a pleasant correspondence, is featured right below my lil namecheck with his new stellar watercolour paintings of dear ole Jack safe in heaven dead on the cover of newest Beat Scene, and of hero Gary Snyder, ergo:
Beat Scene, the essential Beat journal, (and a long-time labor of love by editor, Kevin Ring), has a brand-new issue just out. The cover (see above) shows an arresting portrait of Jack by artist Jonathan Collins [Check out Jonathan’s incredible paintings at: http://www.jonathancollinsart.com/]
Here’s a recent painting by Collins of Gary Snyder:
Hoping Jonathan makes his incredible portraits available as postcards – if so, i will be customer number 1, no doubt about it.