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The Spirit of '14 Kerouac Radio Play
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The Spirit of '14 Kerouac Radio Play


October 10, 2008, 4-5:30 pm (Simulcast on WCRX)
October 16, 2008 6:00 pm & 7:00 pm (6:00 pm simulcast on WCRX)
November 5, 2008, 5:00 pm & 6:00 pm (6:00 pm on WCRX)

Beat Cafe, C33 Gallery, 33 East Congress Parkway

The Radio Department at Columbia College Chicago presents Jack Kerouac's The Spirit of '14, the author's only known radio play.  An anti-war story set in the days after World War I, The Spirit of '14 was written during Kerouac's tie as a student at Columbia University in New York.  The work will be performed live and simulcast on Columbia College Chicago's radion station, WCRX, 88.1 FM.