The Symbolism Survey: Do authors consciously plant...

Published Dec 07 2011 by Oh No They Didn't!

The Symbolism Survey: Do authors consciously plant symbols in their work?

In 1963, a high school student sent copies of his English teacher's questionnaire on symbolism to several literary greats and Ayn Rand.In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed...

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Regina Weinreich: Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong. ... [ Published May 26 2012 by Huffington Post ]

Entities: Jack Kerouac, Walter Salles, William Burroughs

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Style Icon: John Updike

One of the greatest American authors of the 20th century was also one of the most subtly stylish. See our tribute to a seminal writer's timeless aesthetic1 of 15If you've ever imagined being a writer—superficially at least, with all the accolades and ... [ Published May 24 2012 by GQ US ]

Entities: John Updike, Ipswich (Massachusetts, United States), Angstrom Power Inc, Harvard (Massachusetts, United States)

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review

Golf, gay sex and the fate of faulty footballs are some of the subjects tackled in this final pillar of Updike's wisdom. If only he'd been alive to compile it himself Higher Gossip, edited by Christopher Carduff, is a posthumous selection of John Updike's ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: John Updike, William Shawn, Sex, Rectum

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 2 Documents

Kerouac's On the Road Comes to Cannes: Where's the Beat?

IFC FilmsOn the RoadYear: 2012Director: Walter SallesStudio: IFC Films and Sundance SelectsActors: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart Back in the early ’60s, a 16-year-old high school senior sat across from an admissions official at Princeton ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Time ]

Entities: Jack Kerouac, James Dean, Walter Salles

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Your Morning Shot: Norman Mailer

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit." ... [ Published May 23 2012 by GQ US ]

Entities: Norman Mailer

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 20 2012 - 1 Documents

Kristen Stewart

Pass notes No 3,178: Jack Kerouac

The Beat writer's masterpiece On the Road has been made into a film. But why has it taken 55 years to get it on to the screen?Age: Died in 1969, aged 47.Appearance: Dead Beat.Who was he? A leading novelist and poet of the Beat Generation .Oh right. That ... [ Published May 20 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando, Kristen Stewart

First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Reader review: Kerouac caught the imagination of a generation, but On the Road is also impressively written, says RabBurnout ... [ Published May 19 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Jack Kerouac

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10 Epidemically Overrated Books [ Published May 25 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger Whenever we tell people that we didn’t like The Cather in the Rye, they immediately demand, “Well, when did you read it?” The prevailing wisdom, after all, is that it’s one of those novels you have to read at the ...
On The Road To Awards Season? Kerouac Book Fina... [ Published May 24 2012 by Deadline.com ] Critics may have been mixed after this morning’s press screening, but the World Premiere audience at Wednesday night’s Cannes gala of director Walter Salles’ long-gestating film On The Road was highly enthusiastic giving the film about the Beat Generation a ...
Cannes: ‘On the Road,’ with Garrett Hedlund and... [ Published May 23 2012 by Dave Karger's OscarWatch ] In On the Road, Walter Salles’ reverent, at times almost painfully faithful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s birth-of-the-Beat-spirit novel, the characters ...
Cannes: ‘On the Road,’ with Garrett Hedlund and... [ Published May 23 2012 by The Movie Critics ] In On the Road, Walter Salles’ reverent, at times almost painfully faithful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s birth-of-the-Beat-spirit novel, the characters ...
Kristen Stewart had no problem with the explici... [ Published May 23 2012 by In Case You Didn't Know ] Kristen Stewart was desperate to shrug off her good-girl image after filming the ‘Twilight’ movies. She found exactly what she was looking for with the carefree sexuality of her character in ‘On the Road’. Stewart, 22, has said that after portraying ...

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Cenk: Ayn Rand is a sociopath, Glenn Beck a pro... [ Published Apr 06 2012 by Current - YouTube ]