Paul Maher Jr.

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE BOOKS WRITTEN/EDITED BY PAUL MAHER JR.
Hear New Maher Interview:
March 12, 2008 (Jack Kerouac's Birthday!)
“Inquiry,” WICN Radio (Worcester,MA.)
http://wicn.org/audio/inquiry-jack-kerouacs-american-journey-maher

Hear New Maher Interview on Podcast
NPR-affiliate 92.1 Madison, Wisconsin
http://www.themic921.com/pages/SundayJournal.html

New Maher Interview - Beat Scene #54 available at
http://www.beatscene.net/

WICN - March 12, 2008 (details forthcoming)
WFNX - January 2008 (details forthcoming)

THE NEW YORKER'S Louis Menand (October 1, 2007) says:

"Fundamentally, “On the Road” is autobiographical. It’s a report—with pseudonyms (for legal reasons) and elisions (mostly for length reasons)—of four long-distance trips that Kerouac made between 1947, when he bused and hitchhiked by himself from New York to Denver, and 1950, when he drove with Cassady and another friend from Denver to Mexico City. Kerouac’s real-life travels are the subject of “Jack Kerouac’s American Journey,” by Paul Maher, Jr."



PUBLICATIONS - FORTHCOMING AND IN-PRINT

NOW AVAILABLE!
JACK KEROUAC'S AMERICAN JOURNEY: The Real-Life Odyssey of On the Road (Da Capo Press, 2007)

NOW AVAILABLE!
KEROUAC: HIS LIFE AND WORK
Paperback (Corrected and Revised)
Taylor Trade Publishing

EMPTY PHANTOMS: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac - Ed. by Paul Maher Jr. 501 pages
Thunder's Mouth Press

EMPTY PHANTOMS is a collection of articles, transcripts and essays of or by Jack Kerouac. Pulling from an array of periodicals, newspapers, television shows and radio interviews, Kerouac scholar Paul Maher, Jr. has edited a book that will become required reading for the Kerouac enthusiast and/or scholar.

Paperback: 503 pages
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press (NOW AVAILABLE!)
ISBN: 1560256583

The San Diego Tribune says:
"This is definitely a book for beat generation junkies. Practically every printed, recorded and filmed interview with Kerouac is collected in this 505-page book. You'll even find Kerouac's infamous military personnel file in which he was diagnosed with "Dementia Praecox." (Nov. 10, 2005)

Mojo Lorwin of the New York Press writes: "It was in reading this book that my image of Kerouac began to change from phony to idol . . ." (Vol. 18 - Issue 48 - November 30-December 6, 2005)

Kerouac: The Definitive Biography
Impressively researched and examined, Kerouac: The Definitive Biography is the most up-to-date biography of the original hipster and anti-establishment artist, Jack Kerouac. 'Kerouac' contains a remarkable chronological accuracy over previous biographies, and the majority of the primary sources tapped for 'Kerouac' - unpublished notebooks, journals, and drafts of fiction and poetry - come from archival resources, generously made available by Kerouacs literary estate.
Maher shapes the life and work of Jack Kerouac, reveals clear portraits of Kerouac's relationships with women, and sheds light on his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts. During the seven years of research Maher undertook to complete his biography, he drew from the same ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds as Kerouac, having been brought up within the Centralville section of Kerouac's hometown. Having this insider's understanding of Kerouac's Lowell world, Maher unlocked Kerouac's private universe with perceptive readings of his writings. The result is a fresh and compelling work that allows readers to see how Kerouac's fiction truly imitated his life. Jack's turbulent existence is confirmed in 'Kerouac' with accounts from William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti whose words serve to illuminate a writer who was impulsive in nature and exacting in trade.

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