Author: Dennis Mcnally
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: generation, america, beat, kerouac, angel, jack, desolate
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-03
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 0306812223
ISBN-13: 9780306812224

The long-awaited reissue of the definitive biography of Jack Kerouac, unwitting avatar of the Beat Generation and author of On the Road. Jack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the ’60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism. Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts,

Authors:Jack Kerouac, Paul Marion,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: writings, stories, underwood, atop
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140296395
ISBN-13: 9780140296396

Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two, ranging from stories and poems to plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years, and reflect his primary literary influences. Rea

Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: City Lights Publisher
Keywords: pocket, poets, series, lights, city, golden, eternity, scripture
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0872862917
ISBN-13: 9780872862913

These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet’s beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.

Authors:Regina Weinreich, Jack Kerouac,
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: modern, prose, technique, belief, time, genius
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2009-09-09
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 081187026X
ISBN-13: 9780811870269

Jack Kerouac’s musings on the creative process are collected together for the first time in this exquisite book. In the 1950s Allen Ginsberg asked Kerouac to formally describe his "spontaneous prose" method, resulting in a list of maxims called Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Kerouac entertains with sage advice, whether he’s offering a sublime reminder to "believe in the holy contour of life" or a practical admonition to "accept loss forever." With a foreword by Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich and select photos from the Kerouac Estate, You’re a Genius All the Time is

Author: James T Jones
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: form, autobiographical, fiction, mythic, legend, kerouac, duluoz, jack
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-10-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0809322633
ISBN-13: 9780809322633

In the only critical examination of all of Jack Kerouac’s published prose, James T. Jones turns to Freud to show how the great Beat writer used the Oedipus myth to shape not only his individual works but also the entire body of his writing. Like Balzac, Jones explains, Kerouac conceived an overall plan for his total writing corpus, which he called the Duluoz Legend after Jack Duluoz, his fictional alter ego. While Kerouac’s work attracts biographical treatment—the ninth full-length biography was published in 1998—Jones takes a Freudian approach to focus on the form of the work.

Authors:Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: affair, letters, love, beat, wide, open, door
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0141001879
ISBN-13: 9780141001876

On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender side of Kerouac. It also shares the vivid and unusual perspective of what it meant to be young, Beat, and a woman in the Cold War fifties. Reflecting on t

Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, kerouac, jack
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005-04-28
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578067561
ISBN-13: 9781578067565

There are few writers about whom it can be said that they write just like they speak, but Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is clearly one of them. In 1958, Kerouac was a struggling writer trying to create a new literary aesthetic based on the rhythms of human speech, jazz-based improvisation, autobiography, and American slang. That year saw the publication of his second novel On the Road, which would instantly propel him to fame and ensconce him in the literary establishment. By 1969, he was dead of internal hemorrhaging brought on by excessive drinking. Though his literary reputation may have faded,