Road Trip Writing: On the Road and The Canterbury Tales
Jack Kerouac once quipped back at a journalist, “I’m not a beatnik; I’m a Catholic.” Despite the Beat Generation being associated with the countercultural movement—sex, drugs, and … jazz—Kerouac’s...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with Author Paul Maher Jr.
I am so excited to share my interview with Paul Maher, Jr. He has such incredible insight on Kerouac and the writing process in general. I think you’ll see why I enjoy working with him so much on...
View ArticleRoad Trip: Hitchhiking to the Mission
By the time my poor bus rolled into Carmel, the day was fading and the shops had closed their adorable doors. Music from a live concert rose up out of the heart of the main shopping plaza, and the...
View ArticleClip: A Time to Weep
My art post “A Time to Weep” went up on Burnside yesterday. The photo above is of a statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Catholics refer to her as Our Lady of Lourdes because of the apparition Saint...
View ArticleThe Feast Day of Saint Bernadette
image via Wikipedia Bernadeta Sobiróus was only thirty-five years old when she passed away. A miller’s daughter from Lourdes, France, Bernadette was fourteen years old when she first saw a “small young...
View Article10 Articles on Jack Kerouac’s Catholicism to Celebrate the Pope’s Visit to...
Benedict F. Giamo’s Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester Pope Francis is in New York City. There are cops everywhere. Everyone I know, Catholic or not, is excited. I’ve...
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