Kerouac bobbing on your mantel?
Wednesday July 30, 2003
For “Jack Kerouac Night” August 21 at the minor league ballpark in Lowell, Massachusetts, they’re giving away Kerouac bobblehead dolls!
CNN.com reports “The eight-inch doll features Kerouac holding a pen and notebook and standing on a copy of On The Road, his best-known work.” Because collectors from all over seem to be interested, the Lowell Spinners baseball club has ordered extra Kerouac bobbleheads for sale by mail order.
It seems odd to commemorate a writer with such silly kitsch, but also somehow fitting -- Kerouac was an athlete & he’s certainly been enshrined as a popular culture icon since his death. What of the baseball crowd who will receive the bobblehead giveaways? They booed Allen Ginsburg years ago when he was asked to come on the field and do a poem before a San Francisco Giants game. But maybe they will appreciate their little Kerouacs... or turn around and sell them to collectors.
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Scrubbin’ Da Scroll: The Author, The Auctioneer & the Inquiring Mind, Brian Hassett’s account of the 2001 auction of Kerouac’s On the Road manuscript
CNN.com reports “The eight-inch doll features Kerouac holding a pen and notebook and standing on a copy of On The Road, his best-known work.” Because collectors from all over seem to be interested, the Lowell Spinners baseball club has ordered extra Kerouac bobbleheads for sale by mail order.
It seems odd to commemorate a writer with such silly kitsch, but also somehow fitting -- Kerouac was an athlete & he’s certainly been enshrined as a popular culture icon since his death. What of the baseball crowd who will receive the bobblehead giveaways? They booed Allen Ginsburg years ago when he was asked to come on the field and do a poem before a San Francisco Giants game. But maybe they will appreciate their little Kerouacs... or turn around and sell them to collectors.
Related article
Scrubbin’ Da Scroll: The Author, The Auctioneer & the Inquiring Mind, Brian Hassett’s account of the 2001 auction of Kerouac’s On the Road manuscript
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