The Kerouac Project of Orlando

It's a big week for the Kerouac House!

On Monday

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Please join The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando and The Burry Man Writers Center for Slow Ride, a reading of a new play by Joseph Reed Hayes.

The night will also feature a poetry reading and musical performance by the current Writer-in-Residence Christopher "Preacher Boy" Watkins.

When: Monday, November 6th @ 7pm
Where: Taste, in College Park. 717 West Smith Street
Phone: 407.835.0646
$8 donation at the door

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- all proceeds from this event will go to benefit The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando -

On Saturday

Christopher Watkins Farewell Reading
November 11, 2006
8:00 PM @ the Kerouac House
On the corner of Clouser and Shady Lane in College Park

The Kerouac House in the Blog-sphere

Visit www.myspace.com/kerouachouse and see whats on the mind of the current Kerouac House writer-in-residence. You can subscribe to receive notices when writers post work, add you own comments, create links and interact...

... What would Jack think?

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.

The Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, Inc. is working to further Kerouac's legacy in Orlando, where he was living when On the Road was published. The Project's purchase, renovation and operation of the Kerouac House enables successful applicants to live and write there with rent, utilities and some meals provided. To continue and expand its work, The Kerouac Project needs your tax deductible donations, large or small. For more details, see our Wish List.