VESUVIO TO HOST LITERARY EVENT TO HONOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “ON THE ROAD”
SAN FRANCISCO (August 30, 2007) – Vesuvio Café, long associated with Jack Kerouac since the earliest days of the Beat generation, is hosting The Ragged Promised Land, a live show to honor Kerouac’s On the Road on the 50th Anniversary of the book’s first publishing.
The literary entertainment event scheduled for September 5 features readings of excerpts from the book, punctuated with live acoustic jazz.
“The excerpts from On the Road have been selected specifically to showcase Kerouac’s travels in California,” says Rodger Jacobs, the show’s director.
Jacobs, an award-winning writer and documentary producer, will be performing the readings along with Joe Shackel, Jim Reese, Gregg Martinez, and Jan Becker. Vesuvio co-owner Janet Clyde is handling producing chores.
Popular acoustic jazz trio Alt Tal will be on hand to round out the show.
Event details:
“The Ragged Promised Land”
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Vesuvio Café
255 Columbus @ Kerouac Alley
21 & Over/ID Required
Sounds like something you engineered amidst the beer. Sounds promising.
How great, Rodg. Wish I could be up there to see it. Guess what? I’m going to try and learn to write a screenplay & S is going to edit my first foray into real print. Glad to see things going your way in that fab city!
Have a great, great time tomorrow night.
V.
Well, RJ, how’d it go last night??
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Sorry I missed this on a variety of levels. I was actually up there for labor day.
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