Monday, March 23, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
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Jack Kerouac. (Photo courtesy of Tom Palumbo)

This opening event in our U.S. Latino Writers series will explore the Quebecois roots of the American icon Jack Kerouac. The event features Québec journalist Gabriel Anctil, a specialist on Kerouac’s writing; authors/scholars John Tytell and Regina Weinreich (moderator); and special guest Joyce Johnson. These distinguished panel will discuss Kerouac and read from his French texts as well as translations of them. The event will include a video of an interview in French with Kerouac made by Radio Canada in 1967. In collaboration with the Québec Government Office in New York and the Association internationale des études québécoises.

To make a reservation, call (212) 277.8359 or email culture@americas-society.org.

Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this Literature program: the Association internationale des études québécoises Honorary Benefactor Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, the Reed Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Quebec Government Office in New York.