The Path to Cultural Enlightenment: Writing, Literature and Music Finds the Miracle in Its Magic
57 Years of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 Novel On the Road Comes Home Originally published 5 September 2014 September 5, 1957 In the summer of 1957, 57 years ago this summer in California, just as Lawrence Clark Powell, a renowned Southwestern author, bibliophile, and head librarian at the University of California Los Angeles was putting out the first issue of this journal Books of the Southwest, there was a tidal wave (having arrived from the East Coast) building there along the coast in California. Lawrence’s good friend, novelist Henry Miller was now living there nearby, having come from the cultured, war-torn, mores-liberated Paris through New York City, his boundary-breaking novels including Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn still banned...