Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler

Author: Doris Willens

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780803297470

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During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring black music to America's consciousness. He could make people laugh in times when there seemed little to laugh about. An Arkansas traveler and radical minstrel, he commented wryly on events and impaled reactionary southern congressmen on their own words. A kind of Mark Twain of the left, people said. But Lee Hays, for all his great size and talents and humor, was also a difficult man, plagued by self-doubts and a driving need to discombobulate any person or group that struck him as self-satisfied. Lonesome Traveler is the story of a prodigious talent with a zeal for changing the world. With Pete Seeger he formed the popular folksinging group the Weavers, which sang songs of social justice just as a tidal wave of red-hunting hit America. The rest of his legendary story will anger, touch, and delight.

Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler

Author: Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0802195709

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From the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac’s unique collection of personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebration In his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he spent restlessly traveling and writing his acclaimed novels. He journeys from the California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City, and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. With echoes of landscapes that appear in his other novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels, and featuring his distinctive exuberant style and “jazzy impressionistic prose” (New Yorker), Lonesome Traveler is a unique addition to Kerouac’s body of work. Show Additional Fields

Writing Dylan
Writing Dylan

Author: Larry David Smith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-11-02

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13:

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This study of Dylan's mission-driven music reveals a functional approach to art that not only sustained his 60-year career but forever changed an art form. The second edition of Writing Dylan: The Songs of a Lonesome Traveler examines Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan's historic career, yielding unique insights into a distinctively American artist's creative world. The book opens with a short biography and description of Dylan's artistic method before diving into the seven missions of his life's work. Chapters are supported by song lyrics, of which the author's license agreement with Bob Dylan Music enables a definitive presentation. Since the release of the first edition in 2005, the laureate has produced three albums of original material as well as three widely praised albums of American standards. Columbia Records has issued multiple boxed sets chronicling specific periods of Dylan's career, and several films have been made about him. Dylan himself has also given numerous speeches and interviews, often while accepting prestigious awards. This second edition not only features these new materials but draws on them to recast the first edition, presenting Dylan's music as an indelible art form.

Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (LOA #174)
Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (LOA #174)

Author: Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Library of America Jack Keroua

Published: 2007-09

Total Pages: 898

ISBN-13:

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Presents Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" along with four other of his autobiographical "road books" and journal entries related to "On the Road."

Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler

Author: Weldon Hill

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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The odyssey of a 14-year-old boy who travels 700 miles to see his mother. His summer's journey with a cart, a donkey and a dog transforms him from a high-school zero to a celebrity.

Blue Lonesome
Blue Lonesome

Author: Bill Pronzini

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1480485012

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A New York Times Notable Book: A woman’s suicide leads a man to a Nevada mining town—and a nest of poisonous secrets—in this “top-notch thriller” (Publishers Weekly). There is something about the sad woman eating alone night after night at the Harmony Café that intrigues San Francisco CPA Jim Messenger. Unfulfilled himself, Jim feels a kinship with her—and later, when she commits suicide, he resolves to find out why. His search leads him to Beulah, a middle-of-nowhere mining town in the Nevada desert, where hatreds run deep, where secrets are as venomous as a rattlesnake bite, and where a stranger asking too many questions might inexplicably disappear. Still, in this dusty, barren landscape, Jim feels completely alive. And he’s not going anywhere until he uncovers the truth, even if it rips the whole town apart. Richly atmospheric and peopled with achingly human characters, Blue Lonesome is a crime novel as tense and coiled as a rattler ready to strike and as dark and hypnotic as the lonesome desert night.

Atop an Underwood
Atop an Underwood

Author: Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000-11-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1101550627

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An “indispensable” (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels “Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise.”—The Boston Globe Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two years old, including an excerpt from The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literary influences, including the source of his spontaneous prose style. Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac’s development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics alike.

Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler

Author: Weldon Hill

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The odyssey of a 14-year-old boy who travels 700 miles to see his mother. His summer's journey with a cart, a donkey and a dog transforms him from a high-school zero to a celebrity.

Sputnik Sweetheart
Sputnik Sweetheart

Author: Haruki Murakami

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2001-05-22

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0375413464

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Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.