Lola Haskins

Lola Haskins from Adirondack Review

Poems on the web by Lola Haskins
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The Adirondack Review "Featured Poets Page"

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Kerouac again, by Louis Menand

Popular Names

Maxwell Autrey Driggers - born August 7 - photo by Trey Driggers

"Maxwell" ranked 149th in popularity among names of males in the U.S. in 2006. When I was named "Kenneth Maxwell Autrey" back in 1945, it was 856th in popularity. Here's the Social Security Administration web site where you can see the most popular names used in social security number applications by year. You can go back to check any year. You can also determine the popularity of aparticular name over time. I found that "Kenneth" was in the top 20 the yearI was born but has steadily dropped in popularity since then (Hmmm. Should I take this personally?). "Katrina" plummeted in popularity in 2006.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
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Another view of Kerouac's On the Road--as "a manifesto for psychobabble"
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William James in the Adirondacks

Kerouac's On the Road 50 Years Later

Kerouac's On the Road 50 Years Later:

• Gilbert Millstein's original New York Times review
• David Gates in Newsweek
• Alicia Rebensdorf in AlterNet
• Sean O'Hagan in The Observer
• Various articles on Kerouac from The New York Times

When Kerouac's scroll went on the road

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2004 NPR story on the scroll

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Photo of the scroll from Christie's

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David Havird Essay on James Dickey in Spring 2000 Virginia Quarterly Review

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Charles Murray in The American on why the SAT should be abolished (Murray is a libertarian who works for the American Enterprise Institute and co-authored the controversial book, The Bell Curve

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Site for the very cool Found Magazine

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Brad Land's Goat as the summer "Big Read" at Coastal Carolina University:

• Selection of book announced
• Book selection "shelved"
• Editorial on censorship of Goat