What's that black smoke rising, Jack, is the world on fire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0GISfiX9oY
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What's that black smoke rising, Jack, is the world on fire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0GISfiX9oY
#jolieholland #jackkerouac #beatgeneration #mexico #mexicocity #williamburroughs #americana #blues #folk #jazz #country #diademuertos

A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years.
The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published.
It was discovered last year during the disposal of items owned by Paul Castellano, who ran the feared Gambino crime family in New York from 1976 until he was murdered in a hail of gunfire on 16 December 1985.
It is not known how or when Castellano acquired the Kerouac story. According to the company that bought it from his estate, Your Own Museum, it is thought to have originally been given to a San Francisco poet in the beat generation circle. The company said: “It has remained in private hands, meticulously preserved, for over six decades. It is a direct, tangible link to the moment the beat generation exploded into the American consciousness.
~The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/10/very-significant-jack-kerouac-story-discovered-after-mafia-boss-auction
Polyend Play: Make Insane Beats And Songs In Minutes

State Library Victoria has digitised the Vali Myers archive, so you can come in and see her work in the Creative Acts exhibition, or check out the archive online
https://findingaids.slv.vic.gov.au/repositories/5/resources/677/digital_only
Stanford University: Stanford acquires an unseen piece of Beat Generation history. “The archives of Al Aronowitz, a journalist known for his ‘street-level’ coverage of the seminal poets and musicians of the 1950s and ’60s, offer scholars a new lens on mid-20th-century counterculture.”
Last week's book:
El hombre invisible
by Barry Miles