Talking Jack: Rethinking Kerouac w Erik Mortenson & guests

2:00 pm. Talking Jack: Rethinking Kerouac w Erik Mortenson & guests. Erik Mortenson is a faculty member in English at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as several books, including Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence (2011), which won a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award; Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (2016); and Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey (2018). He has also published The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation (2023), co-edited with Tony Trigilio, along with the memoir Kick Out the Bottom (2023), co-written with Christopher Kramer. Mortenson is also a translator whose work has appeared in journals such as Asymptote, Talisman, and Two Lines.

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• Next month, 9th October, 05:00 pm, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac 2025 Opening Gathering at The Worthen in Lowell

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