Journalist by trade with more than three years experience in publishing, primarily in a news-oriented environment. Fiction writer and poet. Voracious reader & studier of cultural arts, literature, journalism, some politics, live music and music history.
+ more bio informationI had just about reached my thirteenth year when I decided to play the bass. At the time, everyone seemed to be more interested in the guitar, and I wanted something more behind-the-curtain and less in the spotlight. So when I think about who's inspired me over the last 12 plus years, at least musically, the notion of who th...
Sal Paradise. Ray Smith. Jack Duluoz. These were the identities Jack Kerouac gave himself over the years in his best-known tales. But how did these characters come to be? Who was Kerouac before he hit the road with buddy Neal Cassady and the rest of his beat brethren? How did Kerouac become Kerouac? "Atop an Underwood", edit...
Matt Perkins
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