Bristol, UK: The Kerouac Connection, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Subtitled a “Beat Brotherhood Newsletter,” here we have the elusive inaugural issue of “The Kerouac Connection,” Dave Moore & Alan Griffey’s charming Jack Kerouac-focused periodical. As Moore himself notes in the work’s blurb-length Editorial Note, “We don’t want to bore you by contributing all the material ourselves, so please let’s have any articles, reviews, poems, letters, photographs and general comments..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage, early number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited by Dave Moore & subtitled [a] "BEAT BROTHERHOOD NEWSLETTER" -- features numerous fascinating, informative articles on the Beat Generation, whose legacy was then existing in a purgatorial state of geriatric paralysis: the authors themselves -- if still alive -- addled, ailing or..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1985. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Subtitled a “Beat Brotherhood Newsletter,” here we have the elusive sixth issue of “The Kerouac Connection,” Dave Moore & Alan Griffey’s charming Jack Kerouac-focused (1922-1969) periodical. The Kerouac Connection is hallmarked by a collage-like assembly of literary-critical (or otherwise historical & scholarly) works from the Beat commentariat (as it then existed). Just as often beside these are new or republished..... More