By: John Mark Boling,
on 3/21/2012
While the release date for the much-hyped film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s beat generation masterpiece On the Road remains ambiguous at best, our interest here at Overlook is keen. We’ve been known to publish a few 60s inspired novels ourselves, including the recently released Any Day Now from San Francisco sweetheart Terry Bisson. But our Suze to Kerouac’s Dylan is the aptly named, Off the Road
By: John Mark Boling,
on 7/29/2009
Just reissued in paperback, The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg, is reviewed in The Electric Review: "Ed Sanders is a brilliant writer with a deeply original imagination – a man with the rare ability to synthesize thought into bite-sized chunks so that it can be easily absorbed into the dank cold buried crevices of the mind. Here, Sanders is able to capture the full breadth of Ginsberg’s epic life in fine detail, weaving the ‘life and times of Allen Ginsberg’ into a swift-rolling narrative poem that brings us back to the best elements of the late bard. Who else but the enigmatic Sanders would have the guts to write a biography in such sprawling form, using the non-structure of poetry to illuminate the sweet essence of the poet? This book is a true ‘page-turner’ from start-to-finish and serious students of the Beat era will find it indispensible." ~John Aiello
