The Sea is My Brother

Jack Kerouac's recently discovered novel The Sea is My Brother, written when he was only 20 years old, is now available.

[FASHION WEEK] WARBY PARKER Guerrilla Eyewear Show

WARBY PARKER eyewear invades the NY Public Library yesterday – models sat quietly reading the classics, but the covers were replaced with labels specifying the style of glasses the models were wearing, such as the Thatcher and Everett. Brilliant.

[DOING GOOD] Warby Parker

Founded on much the same spirit as Toms Shoes, sunglassier Warby Parker donates a pair of optical glasses for every pair of sunglasses sold.  Warby Parker has available 27 limited styles and one monocle. www.warbyparker.com

FIRST PARAGRAPHS: JACK KEROUAC “THE SUBTERRANEANS”

first edition on Zebra Books

“ONCE I was young and had so much orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this: in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally, facetious won’t do-just to start at the beginning and let the truth seep out, thats what I’ll do-. I’ll begin on a warm summer night-, ah, she was sitting on the fender with Julien Alexander who is…..let me begin with the history of the subterraneans of San Francisco….”