Interviews with the well-known Beat generation author of On the Road who revitalized American literature before his premature death due to substance abuse
WALKING THROUGH SLUM SUBURBS of Mexico City I'm stopped by smiling threesome of cats who've disengaged themselves from the general fairly crowded evening street of brown lights, coke stands, tortillas-Unmistakably going to steal my bag-I struggled...
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the...
Written during a critical period of his life, this volume details the spiritual underpinnings of Jack Kerouacâs workâânot only [his] most intimate effort, but among his most vibrant, recording the patt...
The classic autobiographical novel, âone of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literatureâ ( Time ), from acclaimed author Jack Kerouac
"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW."...
Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico City, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control
On September 5, 1957, Jack Kerouac?s novel On The Road was published. Since then, few books have had as profound an impact on American culture. Pulsating with the rhythms of late-1940s/1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery...
On a rainy night in San Francisco, just before Thanksgiving in 1959, Jack Keroauc, Lew Welch, and Albert Saijo piled into Welch's car and set off on a cross-country trip, headed for New York City and then on to Keroauc's mother's home on Long...
âIn [ On the Road ] Kerouacâs heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.ââ Chicago Tribune