Literary Links

 
These sites may change from time to time, as my literary mansion has many houses.

Lit Kicks

“We don’t believe in relaxing with a good book. You can only relax with a mediocre book; a good book can make you so happy you want to scream or so mad you want to kill. This is LitKicks, transmitting words to the world since 1994. Come inside, plug in your brain, and get your minimum daily requirement of Literary Kicks.”

Jim Carroll site

This site was built by Cassie Carter. It is the premere site for JC fans. You will not want for all things pertaining to Jim carroll. You can spend hours here, ’nuff said

Mark beebe’s tribute to Kerouac

You gotta check this out… a hand drawn tribute to Jack Kerouac. “A Vision of Kerouac: As the Shadow.” Really creative and different.

 

Arthur Rimbaud: The Drunken Boat

Some nice ‘On Rimbaud’ writings: Jim Carroll, Henry Miller…Paul Verlaine letters. A good introduction into Rimbaud.

Thomas Wolfe

“At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being–the reward he seeks–the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.”

The Buk

“question and answer” he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer night, running the blade of the knife under his fingernails, smiling, thinking of all the letters he had received telling him that the way he lived and wrote about that– it had kept them going when all seemed truly hopeless. putting the blade on the table, he flicked it with a finger and it whirled in a flashing circle under the light. who the hell is going to save me? he thought. as the knife stopped spinning the answer came: you’re going to have to save yourself. still smiling, a: he lit a cigarette b: he poured another drink c: gave the blade another spin.