Beat Dreams Are Made of This

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Beat scholar and aficionado Dave Moore of Bristol, England, has put together a collection of novels inspired by the life and work of Jack Kerouac and included Beatitude in the mix, along with a dozen others. You can see the full collection here.

 

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Moore runs the Jack Kerouac Facebook group and his Beat credentials are impressive: Author of numerous articles about the Beats, he was also founding editor and publisher of The Kerouac Connection magazine (1984-2000), editor of Neal Cassady: Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Penguin, 2004) and creator of an online guide to the 600+ characters in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, and other Beat works. He also writes on mystery and crime fiction as well as jazz and blues.

 

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