Sam Kashner was the first student to attend the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, part of Boulder's Naropa Institute, in 1976. He shares those experiences in his book, When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School. (First broadcast March 16, 2004.)
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