"Big Sur (film) Big Sur is a 2013 adventure drama film written and directed by Michael Polish. It is an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Jack Kerouac. The story is based on the time Kerouac spent in Big Sur, California, and his three brief sojourns to his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon. These trips were taken by Kerouac in an attempt to recuperate from his mental and physical deterioration due to his sudden success. The film debuted on January 23, 2013, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it received generally positive reviews."
"Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is a memoir written by Henry Miller, first published in 1957, about his life in Big Sur, California, where he resided for 18 years. In 1939, Miller left France for Greece, where he remained until 1940, leaving because of World War II. He returned to New York and made a year-long trip around the US, which resulted in his book ""The Air-Conditioned Nightmare"". He moved to California in June 1942, living in Beverly Glen for over a year. In 1944, he moved to Big"
"he would live for the rest of his life. At the time of the book's publication, numerous Miller books were still banned in the US: ""Tropic of Cancer"", ""Aller Retour New York"", ""Black Spring"", ""Tropic of Capricorn"", ""The World of Sex"", ""Quiet Days in Clichy"", ""Sexus"" and ""Plexus"". Miller was working on ""Nexus"" at the time of ""Big Sur""'s publication. After the publication of the book, which presents Big Sur as paradise on earth, many fans began to arrive in Big Sur to explore the area and seek out Miller. The title of the book is taken from 15th-century Dutch"
"Alan Watts, were cut from the film. Much of the filming was in Monterey County, California, including Big Sur, where the events of the novel take place. Music was composed by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. The film was in post-production as of February 2012. A teaser trailer was released on Vimeo on September 23. On ""Rotten Tomatoes"", the film currently has a score of 42%, based on 19 reviews. Big Sur (film) Big Sur is a 2013 adventure drama film written and directed by Michael Polish. It is an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same"
"A Confederate General from Big Sur A Confederate General from Big Sur is Richard Brautigan's first published novel, published in 1965. The story takes place in 1957. A man named Lee Mellon believes he is a descendant of a Confederate general who was originally from Big Sur, California. This general is not in any books or records and there is no proof of his existence, although Mellon meets a drifter from the Pacific Northwest who has also heard of this general. Mellon seeks the truth of his own modern-day war against the ""status quo"" of the modern United States in"
"of Big Sur. Beginning in the 1920s, his poetry introduced the romantic idea of Big Sur's wild, untamed spaces to a national audience, which encouraged many of the later visitors. Henry Miller moved to Big Sur at the invitation of the Greco-French artist Jean Varda, uncle of filmmaker Agnès Varda. He lived in Big Sur for 20 years, from 1944 to 1962. When he first arrived, he was broke and novelist Lynda Sargent was renting a cabin from a local riding club. She allowed Miller to live rent free for a while. But when the cabin was sold to Orson"
"Emil White, and Jean Varda. Author Elizabeth Smart also lived at Anderson Canyon. Her novella, ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"" (1945) may be the first fiction regarding Big Sur's bohemia. Henry Miller lived here from 1944 to 1947. This is where he wrote ""Into the Nightlife"", and he discusses his time here and the Anderson Creek Gang in ""Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch"". Miller reportedly paid $5 per month rent for his shack on the property. In 1967 ground broke for a new house on the property designed by noted architect George-Brook Kothlow."
"immediately return to Europe, however, instead writing Miller angry letters about his perceived mistreatment. Miller wrote about this episode, which would be published in 1956 as ""A Devil in Paradise"", and a year later as the third part of Big Sur, called ""Paradise Lost."" The lengthy epilogue details the many letters he has received from readers, and concludes by asking the readers not to write to him anymore. It was originally written in Anderson Creek in 1946, and revised for the book's publication. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is"
"Sur"", with actors, writers, artists, and close friends giving their insight into the book. The movie also describes the people and places on which Kerouac based his characters and settings, including the cabin in Bixby Canyon. An album released to accompany the movie, ""One Fast Move or I'm Gone"", features Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) and Jay Farrar (Son Volt) performing songs based on Kerouac's ""Big Sur"". In 2010, during the first weekend of October, the 25th anniversary of the literary festival ""Lowell Celebrates Kerouac"" was held in Kerouac's birthplace of Lowell, Massachusetts. It featured walking tours, literary seminars,"
"Michael McClure Michael McClure (born October 20, 1932) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's ""The Dharma Bums"". He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as ""Pat McLear"" in Kerouac's ""Big Sur"". Educated at the University of Wichita (later Wichita State University; 1951-1953), the University of Arizona (1953-1954), and San Francisco State"
"his novel ""Big Sur"" (1962) on Welch. In 1968, Welch signed the ""Writers and Editors War Tax Protest"" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Welch had a common-law relationship with Polish refugee Maria Magda Cregg. He acted as the stepfather to her son Hugh Anthony Cregg, III, better known by his stage-name Huey Lewis. On May 23, 1971, Welch walked out of poet Gary Snyder's house in the mountains of California, leaving behind a suicide note. He had carried a stainless steel Smith & Wesson .22 caliber revolver. His body was never found. Note:"
"based upon Hamilton's writings, which are much more realistic, gritty and ""noir"". DreamWorks optioned the film rights to Hamilton's books in 2002 and began planning a more serious adaptation of the Matt Helm novels, but the project is in limbo. Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as ""The Big Country"". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the"
"Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel ""The Jungle"", which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act"
"2273 California Street near Japantown, then Geary Street in ""the Avenues"" and finally its members purchased a Victorian home at 733 Baker Street, in the Haight-Ashbury district. Many artists and writers resided there over the years, including Ananda Claude Dalenberg, Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Albert Saijo, Lou Welch, Tom Field, Lenore Kandel and Phillip Whalen. Jack Kerouac was briefly a guest, and many of its residents became characters, under pseudonyms, in his novels ""On the Road"" and ""Big Sur"". Kerouac's biographer, Gerald Nicosia wrote, ""It was no placid colony of self-contained workers,"" but instead, ""...a madhouse of Zen lunatics."" Stiles"
"Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as ""The Big Country"". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: ""Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and"
"of it. Environmentalists will feel a kinship with the author. Even the novel's strong streak of antifederalism (there's a child named States Rights) may be newly relevant to many readers."" The Big Ballad Jamboree The Big Ballad Jamboree is a novel by the American writer Donald Davidson, written in the 1950s and published posthumously in 1996. The story is set in the summer of 1949 in southwestern North Carolina. It follows the romance between Danny MacGregor, a hillbilly music singer, and Cissy Timberlake, a folk-music scholar and former singer. The novel's principal theme is the conflict between tradition and commercial"
"Maurine Whipple Maurine Whipple (January 20, 1903 – April 12, 1992) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her novel ""The Giant Joshua"" (1941). She won the 1938 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for writers working on their first novel. The book is about southern Utah and polygamy. Whipple's parents both grew up in polygamist households, and Whipple grew up in St. George, Utah. She attended the University of Utah and taught in schools for several years. Whipple had many infatuations and brief relationships with men. After attending the 1937 Rocky Mountain Writer's conference, she made connections"
"New Wave and Claude Lelouch's 1966 double Oscar-winner ""A Man and a Woman"", the romance focuses on a journalist Stana Katic (""Castle"") in Paris on assignment, who runs into a lover (Mark Polish) from her past. Presumably enraptured by reconciliation, the pair flee Paris and travel ""by train, car, and motorcycle as their love affair takes them across France from Normandy to St. Tropez."" In 2013 Michael directed American adventure drama, ""Big Sur"" an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Jack Kerouac. The story is based on the time Kerouac spent in Big Sur, California and"
"Welles and Rita Hayworth in 1945, Miller moved several miles south to a wood cabin on Partington Ridge that had been owned by his friend Emil White. While in Big Sur, Miller, avant-garde musician Harry Partch and Jean Varda were part of a local group of bohemians known as the Anderson Creek Gang, many of whom lived at the former highway work camp near the mouth of Anderson Creek. Miller lived in a shack there during 1946 before moving back to the cabin on Partington Ridge in 1947. In his 1957 essay/memoir/novel ""Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch"","
"Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held United States citizenship. Hazzard's 1970 novel, ""The Bay of Noon"", was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010; her 2003 novel ""The Great Fire"" won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin Award and the William Dean Howells Medal. Hazzard also wrote non-fiction, including two books based on her experiences working at the United Nations Secretariat, which were highly critical of the organisation. Hazzard was born in"
"After suffering for several years from chronic pain and depression, Kjelgaard committed suicide in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1959. Jim Kjelgaard James Arthur Kjelgaard (December 6, 1910 – July 12, 1959) was an American author of young adult literature. Kjelgaard was born in New York City, New York. Kjelgaard wrote more than 40 novels, the most famous of which is 1945's ""Big Red"". It sold 225,000 copies by 1956 and was made into a 1962 Walt Disney film of the same name. His books were primarily about dogs and wild animals, often with animal protagonists and told from the animal's point"
"Big Timber. Later, before writing about the fishing industry, he worked as a commercial fisherman and then wrote Poor Man's Rock. Later in life, from 1936–66, he worked full-time as a licensed commercial fisherman. In writing about the outdoors, Sinclair was influenced in his portrayals by Jack London. In his works treating social causes, he was influenced by Upton Sinclair, who may have been a cousin. Over the years 1905-40 Sinclair wrote over 60 stories and 11 ""novelettes"". Bertrand William Sinclair Bertrand William Sinclair (1881–1972) was a Canadian novelist known for a series of westerns set in the United States,"
"Photographs of the Big Sur Coast"", featuring Jeffers' poetry and photography of the Big Sur coast. In the posthumously published 2002 book ""Stones of the Sur"", Carmel landscape photographer Morley Baer combined his classical black-and-white photographs of Big Sur with some of Jeffers' poetry. """" (1973), a single on The Beach Boys' album ""Holland"", depicting of the rugged wilderness in the area and the culture of its inhabitants. ""This article incorporates public domain content from United States and California government sources."" Big Sur Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of California between Carmel Highlands"
"The Big Bamboo The Big Bamboo is the eighth novel by Tim Dorsey featuring the sociopathic anti-hero Serge A. Storms. It was published in the USA in March 2006 and May 2006 in the UK. The plotline follows Serge A. Storms as he follows his recent obsession of Hollywood and movies, in particular the movie ""The Punisher"", which was shot on location in Florida. Serge travels to Hollywood to write a screenplay, something that Coleman, his constantly addled companion, is constantly interrupting with obnoxious and sometimes outrageous concerns. Another subplot involves a screenwriter who is trying to gain his intellectual"
"The Giant Joshua The Giant Joshua is a 1941 novel written by Maurine Whipple about polygamy in nineteenth-century Utah Dixie. The idea for the novel started as a short story submitted to the Rocky Mountain Writer's conference in 1937. There Ferris Greenslet encouraged Whipple to apply for Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, which she won in 1938 in advance of her first novel. With Greenslet's encouragement and support, she completed it over the course of three years. The novel focuses on the life of Clorinda (Clory), who becomes the third wife of Abijah MacIntyre and lives in Southern Utah during its"
"The Big Four (novel) The Big Four is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 27 January 1927 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings, and Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The structure of the novel is different from other Poirot stories, as it began from twelve short stories (eleven in the US) that had been separately published. This"
"The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles. The story is noted for its complexity, with characters double-crossing one another and secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination about ""sleeping the big sleep"" in the final pages of the book. In 1999, the book was voted 96th of ""Le Monde""s ""100 Books of the"
"novel ends on a theme of new hope. American novelist Jack Kerouac dismissed it in ""Big Sur"" (1962), though popular interest was renewed in the 1960s – specifically in the psychedelic movement – primarily because it was seen as a counterculture book, and because of its depiction of free love and explicit drug use. It was also introduced in many new colleges for study, and interest in the book and in Hermann Hesse was feted in America for more than a decade afterwards. Hesse's 1928 short story ""Harry, the Steppenwolf"" forms a companion piece to the novel. It is about"
"The Big Ballad Jamboree The Big Ballad Jamboree is a novel by the American writer Donald Davidson, written in the 1950s and published posthumously in 1996. The story is set in the summer of 1949 in southwestern North Carolina. It follows the romance between Danny MacGregor, a hillbilly music singer, and Cissy Timberlake, a folk-music scholar and former singer. The novel's principal theme is the conflict between tradition and commercial prospects. Davidson was best known as a poet and ""The Big Ballad Jamboree"" was his only novel. ""Publishers Weekly's"" critic wrote: ""the novel places a comic spin on the serious"
"continuity the novel still appeared under his pseudonym of Paul French. Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury is the fourth novel in the ""Lucky Starr"" series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in March 1956. Since 1972, reprints have included a foreword by Asimov explaining that advancing knowledge of conditions on Mercury has rendered some of the novel's descriptions of that world inaccurate. ""Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury"""
"Big Sur. The film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in January 2018, where it was runner-up in the festival's 'Beyond' programme. Speaking about casting the role, director Gallagher stated: ""We needed an actress who could speak volumes without saying a word. The kind of actor whose heart shines through their eyes. Emily Bett Rickards has these qualities."" Rickards performance as Kim received particular praise from festival critics described as ""impressively toe(ing) the line between blustery self-regard and the vulnerability it hides"", ""exploring a broad spectrum of emotions"" and being able to ""hone in on the inherent conflict within Kimberly""."
"The Great Pacific War The Great Pacific War was a 1925 novel by British author Hector Charles Bywater which discussed a hypothetical future war between Japan and the United States. The novel accurately predicted a number of details about the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Bywater was a naval correspondent for the ""London Daily Telegraph"". In ""The Great Pacific War"", the war begins with a Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Formosa and Korea. Japan then stages a surprise attack which results in the nearly complete destruction of the Panama Canal, by exploding a freighter full of explosives in the Gaillard"
"to New York to attend The New School for Social Research on scholarship for three and a half years before she dropped out. She moved to San Francisco in 1960. She began living in the East-West House co-op where she met Jack Kerouac, who later immortalized her as ""Romana Swartz"", ""a big Rumanian monster beauty,"" in his novel ""Big Sur"" (1962). In the novel, she is described as being the girlfriend of Dave Wain, who was based on Lew Welch. ""Dave"" describes how she walked around the ""Zen-East House"" (""East-West House"") wearing only purple panties. Kerouac described her as ""intelligent,"