"each other. This period provided the materials for Kerouac's novel ""The Dharma Bums"", and Snyder was the inspiration for the novel's main character, Japhy Ryder, in the same way Neal Cassady had inspired Dean Moriarty in ""On the Road"". As the large majority of people in the Beat movement had urban backgrounds, writers like Ginsberg and Kerouac found Snyder, with his backcountry and manual-labor experience and interest in things rural, a refreshing and almost exotic individual. Lawrence Ferlinghetti later referred to Snyder as 'the Thoreau of the Beat Generation'. Snyder read his poem ""A Berry Feast"" at the poetry reading"
"aspiring writer. They're invited by mutual friend Chad to meet Dean Moriarty, a young car thief from Denver, and Dean's 16-year-old wife Marylou. Sal and Carlo befriend Dean, smoking marijuana with him and visiting a jazz nightclub where they meet saxophonist Walter, who also befriends them. Sal teaches Dean how to write before Dean leaves for Denver with Carlo. After much contemplation, writer's block, and a solemn visit to his father's grave, Sal decides to join his friends in Denver and embarks on the road for the first time. There, Sal meets Camille, an art college student for whom Dean"
"addressed to Neal Cassady (who is commonly known as the inspiration for the character Dean Moriarty) dated January 10, 1953. The published novel runs over 110 pages, having been reconstituted from six distinct files in the Kerouac archive by Professor Cloutier. Set in 1935, mostly on the East Coast, it explores some of the recurring themes of Kerouac's literature by way of a spoken word narrative. Here, as with most of his French writings, Kerouac writes with little regard for grammar or spelling, often relying on phonetics in order to render an authentic reproduction of the French-Canadian vernacular. Even though"
"a very precocious manner—how thoroughly pervasive the media is. It's not just an aspect of our lives, but the dominant aspect of our lives."" Prince has built up a large collection of Beat books and papers. Prince owns several copies of ""On the Road"" by Jack Kerouac, including one inscribed to Kerouac's mother, one famously read on ""The Steve Allen Show"", the original proof copy of the book and an original galley, as well as the copy owned by Neal Cassady (the Dean Moriarty character in the book), with Cassady’s signature and marginal notes. Describing his career and methodology in"
"the night which bop has come to represent for all of us, I thought of all my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing-about."" Main characters Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty are clearly enthusiastic fans of the jazz/bebop and early rhythm-and-blues musicians and records that were in the musical mix during the years when story took place, 1947-50. Sal, Dean, and their friends are repeatedly depicted listening to specific records and going to clubs to hear their musical favorites. For"
"Dean Moriarty (Daniel Samonas), and Juliet Van Heusen (Bridgit Mendler) respectively. The series characters cross over with ""The Suite Life on Deck"" and Hannah Montana in part one and two of ""Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana"" featuring cast members from ""The Suite Life on Deck"" namely, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Brenda Song, Debby Ryan and Phill Lewis. Guest stars and recurring cast include: Dan Benson, Bill Chott, Skyler Samuels, Josh Sussman, Daryl Sabara, Cindy Crawford, Fred Willard, Rachel Dratch, Dwayne Johnson, Misty May-Treanor, JD Cullum, Anne Ramsay, Amanda Tepe and Jeff Garlin. Alex has another love interest, her classmate"
"maverick eager to explore all kicks and an inspiration and catalyst for Sal's travels. The novel contains five parts, three of them describing road trips with Moriarty. The narrative takes place in the years 1947 to 1950, is full of Americana, and marks a specific era in jazz history, ""somewhere between its Charlie Parker ""Ornithology"" period and another period that began with Miles Davis."" The novel is largely autobiographical, Sal being the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady. The first section describes Sal's first trip to San Francisco. Disheartened after a divorce, his life changes"
"picked up her first book, ""Feeling Sorry for Celia"", was Australian author Garth Nix. Moriarty was previously married to Canadian writer Colin McAdam, and they have one young son, Charlie. She currently lives in Sydney. The Ashbury/Brookfield Series is four novels that are not sequels but are linked. They all revolve around various students that attend the exclusive private school, Ashbury High, or the local comprehensive, Brookfield High. Many of the students cross over into more than one novel, but each novel is different and tells a different story. All novels are told through the various character's own writing (through"
"bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay for $2.43 million (equivalent to $ million in ). It has occasionally been made available for public viewing, with the first 30 feet (9 m) unrolled. Between 2004 and 2012, the scroll was displayed in several museums and libraries in the United States, Ireland, and the UK. It was exhibited in Paris in the summer of 2012 to celebrate the movie based on the book. The two main characters of the book are the narrator, Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense of adventure, a free-spirited"
"popular book. This resulted in a series of four paperback thrillers published by Simon & Schuster. These are: Each novel was nominated for a Barry Award and features Simon Leonidovitch as protagonist, a professional courier who takes assignments that become dangerous. The second book in the series (Bagman) received a starred review in ""Publishers Weekly"". MacLarty was a leader of the Las Vegas Writer's Group, formed to help local writers advance their careers. Jay MacLarty Jay Hector MacLarty (December 30, 1943 – December 23, 2010) was an American entrepreneur and novelist. J MacLarty was born in Spirit Lake, Iowa. His"
"Sal's Christmas plans are shattered as ""now the bug was on me again, and the bug's name was Dean Moriarty."" First they drive to New York, where they meet Carlo and party. Dean wants Sal to make love to Marylou, but Sal declines. In Dean's Hudson they take off from New York in January 1949 and make it to New Orleans. In Algiers they stay with the morphine-addicted Old Bull Lee and his wife Jane. Galatea Dunkel joins her husband in New Orleans while Sal, Dean, and Marylou continue their trip. Once in San Francisco, Dean again leaves Marylou to"
"when he meets Dean Moriarty, who is ""tremendously excited with life,"" and begins to long for the freedom of the road: ""Somewhere along the line I knew there would be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me."" He sets off in July 1947 with fifty dollars in his pocket. After taking several buses and hitchhiking, he arrives in Denver, where he hooks up with Carlo Marx, Dean, and their friends. There are parties—among them an excursion to the ghost town of Central City. Eventually Sal leaves by bus and gets to San Francisco,"
"""satisfying and engaging"", complimenting Moriarty's ""convincing and often funny"" dialogue. ""Australian Bookseller & Publisher"" said it was ""the perfect young adult novel"". The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie, (also The Murder of Bindy MacKenzie in the US and Becoming Bindy MacKenzie in the UK) is a 2006 novel for young adults by Jaclyn Moriarty. It is the third of a series set in the north-western suburbs of Sydney, where the author grew up. The story focuses on a minor character from Moriarty's second young adult novel, ""Finding Cassie Crazy"". The story is told through letters, memos"
"The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie, (also The Murder of Bindy MacKenzie in the US and Becoming Bindy MacKenzie in the UK) is a 2006 novel for young adults by Jaclyn Moriarty. It is the third of a series set in the north-western suburbs of Sydney, where the author grew up. The story focuses on a minor character from Moriarty's second young adult novel, ""Finding Cassie Crazy"". The story is told through letters, memos and transcripts, similar to the structure of other novels by the author. The novel follows Bindy Mackenzie, a Year 11 student at"
"chastised the publishing industry for being unwilling to publish it. The Memory of Running The Memory of Running is a 2004 novel by Ron McLarty. Narrated by obese, single, and suddenly orphaned Vietnam War-veteran Smithy Ide, the book relates, in alternating chapters, his bike ride across the country, from East Providence, Rhode Island to Los Angeles, to claim the body of his late, mentally unbalanced sister, and an examination of the broken life which had led him here. McLarty had had no luck finding a publisher for his novel until Stephen King, in his column in Entertainment Weekly, praised the"
"Laura Moriarty (novelist) Laura Moriarty (born December 24, 1970, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American novelist. Laura Moriarty was born in Honolulu in 1970. She earned a degree in social work before earning an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. She was the recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Moriarty currently lives with her daughter in Lawrence, Kansas, and is at work on her next novel. According to Moriarty, her debut novel (""The Center Of Everything"") was deeply influenced by a reading of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World."
"term ""Beat"" referred, all at the same time, to the countercultural rhythm of the Jazz scene, to a sense of rebellion regarding the conservative stress of post-war society, and to an interest in new forms of spiritual experience through drugs, alcohol, philosophy, and religion, and specifically through Zen Buddhism. Allen Ginsberg set the tone of the movement in his poem ""Howl"", a Whitmanesque work that began: ""I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."" Among the most representative achievements of the Beats in the novel are Jack Kerouac's ""On the Road"" (1957), the chronicle of a soul-searching"
"lift to East 14th Street. Sal tells Dean it was good to see him, and leaves him to walk as Sal and his friends depart. When Sal returns home that night, he is able to write his novel about his life on the road with Dean. A film adaptation of ""On the Road"" had been in development hell for decades. In 1957, Jack Kerouac wrote a one-page letter to actor Marlon Brando, suggesting that he play Dean Moriarty while Kerouac would portray Sal Paradise. In the letter, Kerouac envisioned the film to be shot ""with the camera on the front"
"violent, graphic or controversial since 1994. Moriarty acted in ""The Last Detail"", ""Courage Under Fire"", ""Along Came a Spider"", ""Shiloh"", ""Emily of New Moon"" and ""James Dean"", for which he won his third Emmy. In 2007 he debuted his first feature-length film as screenwriter and performed the role of a man who thinks he is Adolf Hitler in ""Hitler Meets Christ"". In addition to his acting career, Moriarty is a semi-professional jazz pianist and singer, as well as a classical composer. He has recorded three jazz albums (though the first, ""Reaching Out"", went unreleased). He has performed live regularly in"
"The Memory of Running The Memory of Running is a 2004 novel by Ron McLarty. Narrated by obese, single, and suddenly orphaned Vietnam War-veteran Smithy Ide, the book relates, in alternating chapters, his bike ride across the country, from East Providence, Rhode Island to Los Angeles, to claim the body of his late, mentally unbalanced sister, and an examination of the broken life which had led him here. McLarty had had no luck finding a publisher for his novel until Stephen King, in his column in Entertainment Weekly, praised the novel (at the time only available as an audiobook) and"
"Moriarty, a warehouse worker. When she was 18 years old, her friends urged her to enter a bathing-beauty contest at a bar: Moriarty made her film debut in Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"" (1980), as Vikki LaMotta, wife of Jake (Robert De Niro). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later, Moriarty played John Belushi's destructive, sultry neighbor in ""Neighbors"", a film adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel of the same name. In 1982, she was severely injured in an automobile accident and required back surgery. In 1985, Moriarty agreed to co-star with Jack Nicholson in ""The Two"
"to mid 1914; ""The Valley of Fear"", which contains the comment about maths so abstruse that no one could criticise it, was published in September 1914. Irish mathematician Des MacHale has suggested George Boole may have been a model for Moriarty. Jane Stanford, in ""That Irishman"", suggests that Doyle borrowed some of the traits and background of the Fenian John O'Connor Power for his portrayal of Moriarty. In ""Moriarty Unmasked: Conan Doyle and an Anglo-Irish Quarrel"", 2017, Stanford explores Doyle's relationship with the Irish literary and political community in London. She suggests that Moriarty, Ireland's Napoleon, represents the Fenian threat"
"Denise Moriarty (1910?–1992), the celebrated ballet dancer, dance teacher and musician was his niece, the daughter of his brother Michael and Marion McCarthy. Moriarty's niece, Joan Denise Moriarty, the celebrated ballet dancer Moriarty became Queen's Counsel in 1900, Third Serjeant in 1909 and First Serjeant in 1910. Despite his flourishing legal practice he was often in financial difficulties, and he went bankrupt in the 1890s. Although he supported the Liberals, unlike many barristers he did not regard party politics as a path to advancement and showed little interest in acquiring a seat in the House of Commons, although he contemplated"
"and 1960s (as seen in the works of Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, et al.) was typically more proactive than his French counterpart, with characters such as Kerouac's Dean Moriarty famously taking to the road to vanquish his ennui. The British version of the antihero emerged in the works of the ""angry young men"" of the 1950s. The collective protests of Sixties counterculture saw the solitary antihero gradually eclipsed from fictional prominence, though not without subsequent revivals in literary and cinematic form. The antihero also plays a prominent role in films noir such as ""Double Indemnity"" (1944) and ""Night and the"
"described as having actually crawled at four miles per hour after suffering cramps in both feet. Several characters suffer mental breakdowns, one of them killing himself by tearing out his throat, and most characters experience some mental degeneration from the stress and lack of sleep. The protagonist of the novel is Raymond Davis Garraty, a 16-year-old boy from the town of Pownal in Androscoggin County, Maine. Early on, he falls in with several other boys—including Peter McVries, Arthur Baker, Hank Olson, Collie Parker, Pearson, Harkness, and Abraham—who refer to themselves as ""The Musketeers"". Another Walker, Gary Barkovitch, quickly establishes himself"
"Brookfield. The first companion novel is ""Finding Cassie Crazy"" (""The Year of Secret Assignments"" in the US). The second companion novel is ""The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie"" (""The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie"" in the US, ""Becoming Bindy Mackenzie"" in the UK). ""Dreaming of Amelia"" (""The Ghosts of Ashbury High"" in the US), the third companion novel, was released late 2009 in Australia, and 2010 elsewhere. Feeling Sorry for Celia Feeling Sorry for Celia is a young adult novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. It was first published in 2000 by Pan Macmillan. The story is told in a series of letters. Life"
"respectively, but this project also failed to work. In 2001, Coppola hired novelist Russell Banks to write the script and planned to make the film with Joel Schumacher directing and starring Billy Crudup as Sal Paradise and Colin Farrell as Dean Moriarty, but this incarnation of the project was shelved as well. Gus Van Sant also expressed interest in making the film. Coppola saw ""The Motorcycle Diaries"" and hired Brazilian director Walter Salles to direct the film. Salles was drawn to the novel because, according to him, it is about people ""trying to break into a society that’s impermeable"" and"
"The Dynamics of an Asteroid The Dynamics of An Asteroid is a fictional book by Professor James Moriarty, the implacable foe of Sherlock Holmes. The book is described by author Arthur Conan Doyle in ""The Valley of Fear"" (written in 1914, but set in 1888) when Sherlock Holmes, speaking of Professor Moriarty, states: With this class of talent, Professor Moriarty evoked the profound respect of Sherlock Holmes, one of the few opponents to do so (Irene Adler being another). Doyle also portrayed Professor Moriarty as the author of ""a treatise on the binomial theorem"", written when he was only 21"
"father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty."" Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family. The book received a mixed reaction from the media in 1957. Some of the earlier reviews spoke highly of the book, but the backlash to these was swift and strong. Although this was discouraging to Kerouac, he still received great recognition and notoriety from the work. Since its publication, critical attention has focused on issues of both the context and the style, addressing the actions of the characters as well as the nature of Kerouac's prose. In his review for ""The"
"Chris Moriarty Chris Moriarty (born 1968) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has lived in the U.S., Europe, Mexico and Southeast Asia. Before becoming a science fiction writer, she worked as a horse trainer, ranch hand, tourism industry employee, guide and environmental lawyer. She currently lives in Ithaca, New York. Moriarty is the author of a trilogy of hard science fiction novels set in a distant future where Earth has undergone ecological collapse. Most of humanity has migrated to various planets and space habitats, both in the solar system and around nearby stars such as Barnard's Star"
"Moriarty (novel) Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by author Anthony Horowitz and published in 2014. It is the follow up, but not a sequel, to ""The House of Silk"". ""Moriarty"" takes place in 1891 after the events of Doyle's ""The Final Problem"". Sherlock Holmes appeared only at the end of the novel. The detectives that Holmes worked with in previous cases, such as Athelney Jones and Lestrade, also appeared in the novel. The novel follows Frederick Chase and Athelney Jones as they try to prevent a new criminal mastermind taking over the streets of London after Moriarty's demise."
"Moriarty (novel) Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by author Anthony Horowitz and published in 2014. It is the follow up, but not a sequel, to ""The House of Silk"". ""Moriarty"" takes place in 1891 after the events of Doyle's ""The Final Problem"". Sherlock Holmes appeared only at the end of the novel. The detectives that Holmes worked with in previous cases, such as Athelney Jones and Lestrade, also appeared in the novel. The novel follows Frederick Chase and Athelney Jones as they try to prevent a new criminal mastermind taking over the streets of London after Moriarty's demise."
"Liane Moriarty Liane Moriarty (born 15 November 1966) is an Australian author. She is the older sister of author Jaclyn Moriarty. After leaving school, Moriarty worked in advertising and marketing at a legal publishing company. She then ran her own company for a while before taking work as a freelance advertising copywriter. In 2004, after obtaining a master's degree at Macquarie University in Sydney her first novel ""Three Wishes"", written as part of the degree, was published. Six further novels have been published. Moriarty lives in Sydney with her husband, Adam, a former farmer from Tasmania who worked in agricultural"