About Jerry Cimino
Posts by Jerry Cimino:
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Read more...American Writers Museum
We presented 'Kerouac@100: The Man vs The Myth' at the American Writers Museum in Chicago.
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Read more...The Jim Irsay Collection
Some highlights from our visit to the Jim Irsay Collection at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis!
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Read more...The Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa
The highlight of Oklahoma was the new Bob Dylan Center.
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Read more...Eisenhower Library & Museum
You can't run a museum about the Beat Generation without a deep understanding of what Dwight David Eisenhower meant to America in the post-WWII era.
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Read more...Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur
Our Kerouac Centennial Tour kicked off in Big Sur, with an event at the Henry Miller Memorial Library
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Read more...Another Visit from Jimmy Page
by Jerry Cimino Three weeks ago, Van Morrison visited The Beat Museum. This weekend it was Jimmy Page. The common denominator? They both love Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. It’s no accident. Both musicians were influenced by Jack and the Beats when they were teenagers, and today they’re two of rock and roll’s enduring […]
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Read more...A Visit from Van Morrison
I was out of breath the day I met Van Morrison. I couldn't help it.
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Read more...Wrastling with the Devil
by Jerry Cimino I was talking with Al Hinkle the other day. He had just turned 91 in September, and we spoke on the phone New Year’s Eve, wishing each other well as 2018 clicked over. Al was a close friend of both Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, and is pseudonymously “Big Ed Dunkel” in […]
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Read more...First Appearance of Kerouac in Russia, 1960
Wherein we're gifted a rare 1960 book of 'foreign literature' translated into Russian, and containing excerpts from On the Road.
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Read more...National Post (Canada): The Joan Anderson Letter
The real story behind the long-lost, drug-fuelled ‘Holy Grail’ letter that inspired On The Road
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Read more...Famed Cassady letter to Kerouac to go up for auction
Joan Anderson Letter finally hits the auction block