Kerouac fans stage marathon reading
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Admirers of author Jack Kerouac celebrated the 50th anniversary of "On the Road" with a marathon reading of the novel. Fans and some close friends of the late author took turns reading his most famous novel aloud at Naropa University in Boulder on Saturday.
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Travel: Rory MacLean recommends the best books for transporting readers to a foreign land
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My rÃÂ¿sumÃÂ¿ is pretty short when it comes to endurance events. There was that 23- hour nonstop drive from New Hampshire to South Carolina back in 1987, and I vaguely remember a St. Patrick's Day drinking contest at the University of Maryland that lasted quite a while (thanks, Norman).
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To meet your favorite author, you don't wait in line, you go online.
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Pierre Bayard, a Paris University literature professor, has written a survivorâs guide for literature students, âHow to Talk About Books You Havenât Read?â
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The author of âFlower Confidential,â a book that is part confession, part exposÃ©, tours the cityâs flower district.
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The route of the New York City Marathon wends its way through the five boroughs of the Big Apple, from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park.
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1. "Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
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Literary fans get the chance to air their views on who should win the first Man Booker International Prize.
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The cloistered community of American poetry has, in recent months, become a little less like Yeatsâs Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue, and a little more like Allen Ginsbergâs âHowl.â
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Recordings of Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves and others are added to an online poetry initiative.
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Explore the myriad of distribution points -- automated data crunchers, search engines, social networks and fellow bloggers -- a blogger's words take on their way to readers.
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"Run" (HarperCollins, 304 pages. $25.95), by Ann Patchett: Within 24 hours, Ann Patchett's latest novel takes readers to the fish of Walden Pond, the speeches of Eugene Debs, the heartbreak of lost mothers and the complications of race relations and family.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - The romance of the open road has proved irresistible to adventurous young men from Jack London to Jack Kerouac and, more recently, Christopher McCandless, a troubled college grad who in the early 1990s burned his cash, junked his car and disappeared into the north Alaskan territories, where he died an agonizing death from starvation, alone.
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Johnny Kelley won the Boston Marathon twice - a heroic feat by any measure. But it was his staggering achievement of finishing the race a record 58 times for which Kelley will forever be known as an &quot;icon for all of running.
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As she climbed the final obstacle to her first-ever marathon victory, Constantina Tomescu-Dita couldn&#39;t help looking back - back to her past, back to the ghosts that have plagued her time and time again.
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Michael Palin turns his wandering eye to the life and locales of Ernest Hemingway, moving between past and present in the places that meant so much to the author.