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Kerouacapalooza at the Gladstone Hotel

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s seminal On The Road – as well as launch a pair of Kerouac-themed books – Toronto’s This Is Not a Reading Series held a “Kerouac Legacy Party” at the Gladstone Hotel on Sept. 5.

Ian Brown inspects author Ray Robertson’s muttonchops. Robertson was launching his new novel, What Happened Later (Thomas Allen Publishers).

Publicist Debby de Groot fears losing her soul in the camera’s flash. Author Stephen Finucan, on the other hand, appears to welcome it.

David Creighton (right), who was launching his book Ecstasy of the Beats (Dundurn Press), makes a point as Robertson and host Jian Ghomeshi listen.

Dundurn design and production assistant Erin Mallory, owner Kirk Howard, and new sales and marketing director Margaret Bryant.

House of Anansi’s Laura Repas with her copy of Robertson’s book.

Local chef Sacha Gatien Douglas hoists one for Kerouac with Catherine MacGregor of HarperCollins Canada.

Novelist Michael Helm and his wife, Juanita Des Barros. (Note designer Bill Douglas going postal in the background.)

Poets Ken Babstock and Karen Solie.

Ghomeshi gets cozy with Thomas Allen publisher Patrick Crean and publicity manager Lisa Zaritzky.

Robertson in a publicity sandwich between Thomas Allen’s Laura Palumbo and Larissa Chalmers. (Warning: staring directly at the pattern on Robertson’s shirt may cause dizziness and/or nausea – though it seems to have had a calming effect on Bill Douglas…)

Alicia Hogan, Thomas Allen senior editor Janice Zawerbny, the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Shirley Hudson, and author Paul Quarrington.

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