Michael Hawley at Urban Think

December 17, 2008

Kerouac Writer Michael Hawley will be reading on Weds, Dec 17th at Urban Think. Entitled, Real.Open.Mic, Urban Think’s partnership with Infusion Tea brings some of Orlando’s best readers and writers into the soft,comfortable surroundings of our downtown bookstore. Signups for the open mike begin at 8:30pm. Readings are from 9-11pm.

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by Michael Hawley

Exerpt from ‘Opheliac’

Exerpt from ‘Opheliac,’ a short story publishing in its entirety in The Saint Ann’s Review (2009 Summer/Fall issue):

His name is Slippy. Each mention of the name makes the possibility of his existence a little less remote.

I don’t know how many others he has entered. He seems to be new to the ranks of controls, unable as yet to materialize or even communicate a likeness of himself. Or maybe he has …


houseJack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. And it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Like all the other places in Kerouac’s nomadic journey, he didn’t live here long. But the home represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when he made the transition from a 35-year-old nobody writer, to the bard of the Beat Generation.

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