Gary Snyder

The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac Da Capo Press, 216 pages, $23   On the Road, the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that has sent generations hitchhiking across America since its publication in 1957, is coming soon to a multiplex near...

Every spring, I listen to the Grateful Dead with fresh ears, not to the exclusion of everything else, but close to it. (I'm not alone in this. How many people in the Northeast associate the Dead's music with thaw, both literal and spiritual?) Despite...

Harry Craig "Frog" Snyder, a retired Baltimore County firefighter who was also a model railroad buff, died Feb. 8 at his Upperco home. He was 59. "We are waiting for the results of an autopsy for the cause of death," said his wife of 32 years, the former...

Keith S. Snyder, 59, of Shepherdstown, W.Va., passed from this life on Monday morning Jan. 16, 2012, at City Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va. Born Jan. 6, 1953, in Berkeley County, W.Va., he was the son of the late George W. Snyder and Margaret I. (Jacobs)...

It’s not every press release from the governor of California that begins with poetry. But when it came time draft a proclamation in honor of Arbor Day, the sort of mundane chore that most governors would think little to nothing......

When thousands of American youths dropped out of mainstream society and descended on San Francisco in the mid-1960s convulsion known as the counterculture, Peter Berg and a small band of like-minded subversives were there to greet them. Calling...

Writer-director Mike Mills, who published a book of illustrations to accompany his new film Beginners, appears Wednesday night in Los Angeles....

Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY David Antin: The poet and critic will discuss his new book, "Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005" with Green Integer publisher Douglas Masserli. Art Catalogues...

Mark Swed reviews a new recording of songs by four composers to texts by the Beat poet Gary Snyder...

"The Beats" at 16th Street Theater in Berwyn ($18 tickets through Feb. 5 at 708-795-6704 or www.16thstreettheater.org) effectively brings back an era of the Holy Hipster, the Dharma Bum, Jazz Cats and Beat Chicks, says Kerry Reid. Artistic director Ann......

Reporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...

A Restaurant, Newport Beach was overflowing with energy Sunday evening. A sold-out crowd converged on the Pacific Coast Highway landmark to support an organization known as Serving People In Need. SPIN executive director Jean Wegener and development...