Liza Monroy Returns to Orlando
The Kerouac Project is excited to welcome back past resident Liza Monroy who will be do a book reading and signing at Urban Think on Friday July 18, 2008 at 7:00PM.
For more information on Liza and her new book Mexican High visit her site http://www.lizamonroy.com/
And as a special benefit to the Kerouac Project Ethos Vegan Kitchen is giving 10% of sales to the Kerouac Project on the day of Liza’s book signing, July 18, 2008. Liza will be there at lunch time signing books and welcoming friends old and new.
2008-2009 Residencies Announced
It is with great excitement that selection committee announces the following residency recipients:
Judy Copeland September ’08 thru November ‘08
Christine Yu Alternate
Michael Hawley December 08’ thru February ‘09
Sarah Giragosian Alternate
Kimberly Elkins March ’09 thru May ‘09
Kate O’Neil Alternate
Brian Turner June ’09 thru August 09
Matt Fullerty Alternate
Thank you so much to all who entered. …
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by Justin QuarryHeart Farm (an excerpt)
The chimeras need feed. Their trough is empty except for pieces of orange rind strewn like busted taillights. They spit cud at its sides in protest. Their trough is an old fishing boat, Eddie’s dead father’s; the mushy lumps thud hollowly against the metal, inching the boat across the dewy grass at angles.
Eddie goes to the barn to prepare their feed. A lump, greenish, clips his arm from behind …
Jack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. And it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Like all the other places in Kerouac’s nomadic journey, he didn’t live here long. But the home represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when he made the transition from a 35-year-old nobody writer, to the bard of the Beat Generation.
