CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Dennis McNally in conversation with Charles Shuttleworth

Описание: From Bohemians to Be-Ins: Jack Kerouac and the Rise of the Haight

Dennis McNally in conversation with Charles Shuttleworth
celebrating the publication of two new books:

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties – by Dennis McNally – published by Da Capo
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Jack Kerouac: The Buddhist Years – edited by Charles Shuttleworth – published by Rare Bird Books / Sal Paradise Press
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Dennis McNally is a New York Times Bestselling author, historian, lecturer, and music industry professional. He is the author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America, as well as, On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom; and A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. He served as the first archivist for Bill Graham Presents in 1983. Having been selected as the Grateful Dead’s authorized biographer in 1980, he became the band’s publicist in 1984. From 1984 to 1995, he toured with the band, in the process working on its behalf at the United Nations, the White House, and Congress. He is the recipient of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson award. McNally edited together a set of interviews with Jerry Garcia for Hachette and the Garcia Estate in 2016 called Jerry on Jerry.

Charles Shuttleworth is senior editor of Sal Paradise Press. He has now edited three volumes of writings from the Kerouac archive, including Desolation Peak (2022), which consists of Kerouac’s writing during his two-month stint as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service in the North Cascades in 1956, and Self-Portrait (2024, co-edited with Paul Maher, Jr.), a volume spanning Kerouac’s whole adult life, from a journal written at age 17 to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death. He has been teaching classes on Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation over the past 30 years, currently at the Harker School in San Jose, CA.

This event was originally broadcast on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 and was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.