Welcome Justin Quarry
Justin Quarry is our new writer for the Summer of 2008. He should be checking in to the Kerouac House on Monday, June 2nd. Justin comes to us as a recent graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. Please sign up for our newsletter to keep in touch with where and when Justin will be reading publicly. We wish him the best and welcome him to Orlando.
Louisa Horn Upcoming Readings
Louisa Horn will be reading twice this month. Check out her writer’s page to learn more about her work.
May 21st, 2008 @ 7:00PM at Soft Exposure Reading Series held at Infusion Teahouse in College Park
May 24th, 2008 Louisa Horn Farewell Reading @ 8:00PM held at the Kerouac House in College Park
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Latest Post from Writers Page
by Justin QuarryHeart Farm (an excerpt)
The chimeras need feed. Their trough is empty except for pieces of orange rind strewn like busted taillights. They spit cud at its sides in protest. Their trough is an old fishing boat, Eddie’s dead father’s; the mushy lumps thud hollowly against the metal, inching the boat across the dewy grass at angles.
Eddie goes to the barn to prepare their feed. A lump, greenish, clips his arm from behind …
Jack 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.
