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| jack kerouac on the road: On the Road Jack Kerouac, 1976-12-28 Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation “An authentic work of art.”—The New York Times Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon and imbued with Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope—a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. |
| jack kerouac on the road: On the Road Jack Kerouac, 1976-12-28 The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Jack Kerouac's On the Road Harold Bloom, 2004 Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom. |
| jack kerouac on the road: The First Third Neal Cassady, 1971-12 Autobiographical writing by the hero of Jack Kerouac's On the road. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Beatific Soul Isaac Gewirtz, 2007 Jack Kerouacs On the Road was a touchstone for a generation and the centerpiece of the Beat movement in literature and art. This text by Isaac Gewirtz examines Kerouacs life and career, his counter-culture vision, and his relationships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and other Beats.Scala Publishers |
| jack kerouac on the road: Off the Road Carolyn Cassady, 2008-10-15 This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle |
| jack kerouac on the road: Warlock Oakley Hall, 2014-08-05 Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction. Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named Blaisdell who . . . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . . . Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with—the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power—the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall. —Thomas Pynchon |
| jack kerouac on the road: Hit the Road, Jack Robert Burleigh, Ross MacDonald, 2013-01-15 In this delightful picture book, loosely inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, a scat-singing, bebopping jackrabbit travels across the United States and marvels at all the wonders that the country reveals—from hopping on the subway in New York City to playing a jukebox in Chicago, and from gazing at Mount Rushmore to crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Written in the rhythm and spirit of Beat poetry, Hit the Road, Jack is an exuberant story of experiencing all the country has to offer with wide-eyed awe. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Burning Furiously Beautiful Paul Maher Jr., Stephanie Nikolopoulos, 2013-10 Fueled by coffee and pea soup, Jack Kerouac speed-typed On the Road in just three weeks in April 1951. He'd been travelling America for the past ten years and now, at last, the energy of his experiences flowed through his fingertips in a mad rush, pealing forth on a makeshift scroll that he laboriously taped together. The On the Road scroll became literary legend, and now Burning Furiously Beautiful sets the record straight, uncovering the true story behind one of America's greatest novels. Burning Furiously Beautiful explores the real lives of the key characters of the novel-- Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarty, Carlo Marx, Old Bull Hubbard, Camille, Marylou, and others. Ride along on the real-life adventures through 1940s America that inspired On the Road. By tracing the evolution of Kerouac's literary development, this book explains how it took years--not weeks--to write the seemingly sporadic 1957 novel. Through new research and exclusive interviews, this revised and expanded edition of Jack Kerouac's American Journey (2007) takes a closer look at the rise of Jack Kerouac and the beat generation, giving insight into Kerouac's family roots, his time at sea, the shocking murder that landed Kerouac in jail, his romances, and his startlingly original writing style.--Back cover. |
| jack kerouac on the road: On the Bro'd Mike Lacher, 2012-03-18 The only bros for me are the mad awesome ones, the ones who are mad to chug, mad to party, mad to bone, mad to get hammered, desirous of all the chicks at Buffalo Wild Wings, the ones who never turn down a Natty Light, but chug, chug, chug like f*cking awesome players exploding like spiders across an Ed Hardy shirt and in the middle you see the silver skull pop and everybody goes, Awww, sh*t! Set to the beat of an 808, On the Bro'd spins the Axed-out tale of one fresh-as-hell player looking to up his game and put some perspective on shit (for real) while capturing the tumultuous times of the oh-tens and defining the spirit of the Beast Generation. It's pretty epic. |
| jack kerouac on the road: On the Road: The Original Scroll Jack Kerouac, 2007-08-16 The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120 foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in the post-World War II period. It was not until more than six years later, and several new drafts, that Viking published, in 1957, the novel known to us today. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Viking will publish the 1951 scroll in a standard book format. The differences between the two versions are principally ones of significant detail and altered emphasis. The scroll is slightly longer and has a heightened linguistic virtuosity and a more sexually frenetic tone. It also uses the real names of Kerouac’s friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them. The transcription of the scroll was done by Howard Cunnell who, along with Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos, provides a critical introduction that explains the fascinating compositional and publication history of On the Road and anchors the text in its historical, political, and social context. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Paradise Road Jay Atkinson, 2010-03-29 Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey today. The author's experiences offer fascinating insights on American culture and society then and now and illuminate his own quest for self-understanding and discovery. Contrasts the life and landscape of Kerouac's 1940s and 1950s America with the realities today Filled with unexpected adventures and strangers encountered on Atkinson's trips to New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Mexico City, and the California coast Reveals Atkinson's engaging reflections on the search for personal identity and self Other titles by Jay Atkinson: Ice Time (a Publishers Weekly Notable Book of the Year) and Legends of Winter Hill (a Boston Globe bestseller) as well as the novels City in Amber and Caveman Politics Absorbing and beautifully written, Paradise Road is essential reading for Kerouac fans as well as lovers of engaging travel memoirs and anyone interested in American life and culture. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Book of Dreams Jack Kerouac, 2001-06 In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about. Excerpt: 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 little, gave up-Begin communicating with them my distress and in fact do so well they end up just stealing parts of my stuff…. We walk off leaving the bag with someone-arm in arm like a gang to the downtown lights of Letran, across a field- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Roa, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Scattered Poems, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes, and Scripture of the Golden Eternity. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Tom Robbins, 2003-06-17 “As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end.”—Buffalo News Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn’t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters’s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true” Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins—that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life. Praise for Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates “Superb.”—New York Post “Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. . . . Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in.”—Daily News, New York “Robbins is a great writer . . . and definitely a provocative rascal.”—The Tennessean “Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom Robbins novel. . . Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.”—San Diego Union-Tribune |
| jack kerouac on the road: The Road Cormac McCarthy, 2007 In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity |
| jack kerouac on the road: Jack Kerouac's American Journey Paul Maher, 2007-11-02 A Kerouac scholar traces the true adventures behind the twentieth century classic novel and discusses the real-life inspirations for the novel's memorable characters. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Turning for Home Barney Norris, 2018-01-11 The deeply moving second novel from the author of the award-winning FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN. 'Courageous...memorable...moving' - Guardian 'One of our most exciting young writers' - The Times 'Life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant' - Donal Ryan 'Isn’t the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you remember that everyone has two lives, their real lives and their dreams, both stories only a tape’s breadth apart from each other, impossibly divided, indivisibly close.' Every year, Robert's family comes together at a rambling old house to celebrate his birthday. Aunts, uncles, distant cousins - it has been a milestone in their lives for decades. But this year Robert doesn't want to be reminded of what has happened since they last met - and nor, for quite different reasons, does his granddaughter Kate. Neither of them is sure they can face the party. But for both Robert and Kate, it may become the most important gathering of all. As lyrical and true to life as Norris's critically acclaimed debut Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, which won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, this is a compelling, emotional story of family, human frailty, and the marks that love leaves on us. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Big Sur Jack Kerouac, 2011-04-26 A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the acclaimed author of On the Road “In many ways, particularly in the lyrical immediacy that is his distinctive glory, this is Kerouac’s best book . . . certainly he has never displayed more ‘gentle sweetness.’”—San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac’s alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur “reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion.” |
| jack kerouac on the road: None So Blind Alis Hawkins, 2017-04-13 A woman?s corpse is discovered near a Welsh community. Harry Probert-Lloyd has returned home from London and is preparing to inherit his father?s work as magistrate ? but is also slowly going blind. He suspects the remains belong to the love of his life, Margaret Jones, who disappeared seven years before. He pushes for an inquest but, thwarted, undertakes his own investigation, supported by childhood friend and local solicitor, John Davies. Cardiganshire still suffers the aftermath of the infamous Beca riots, where men dressed as women, attacking and destroying newly constructed tollbooths. Are the Becas responsible and where is the firebrand leader and clergyman Nathanial Howell? Will Harry unpick the conflicts and lies at the heart of the community before more fall victim to the ruthless killer? Meticulously researched, None So Blind is a wholly authentic evocation of a fascinating but neglected historical period as well as a complex and deeply satisfying crime thriller where nothing is as it seems. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Lonesome Traveler Jack Kerouac, 2007-12-01 From the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac’s unique collection of personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebration In his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he spent restlessly traveling and writing his acclaimed novels. He journeys from the California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City, and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. With echoes of landscapes that appear in his other novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels, and featuring his distinctive exuberant style and “jazzy impressionistic prose” (New Yorker), Lonesome Traveler is a unique addition to Kerouac’s body of work. Show Additional Fields |
| jack kerouac on the road: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac Melissa Medina, Fredrik Colting, 2016-08-30 Turn your story time into a fantastic road trip with this illustrated learning guide to Kerouac's cornerstone of the Beat Generation! With Sal Paradise at the helm, visit the most epic places in the U.S. and beyond, and meet a cast of unforgettable characters. Our simplified, kid-friendly summary and analysis of this timeless classic highlights the freedom and humanity of Kerouac's masterpiece. While our character and author bios will light an adventurous spark in everyone!More than picture books, KinderGuides® offer an interactive story time for adult literature fans and children, or as we like to call them -- future lit fans. Our illustrated guides introduce the greatest literary works to children everywhere, and lay the foundation for a lifelong appreciation of literacy, and our most beloved classics.* Winner of the 2016 Moonbeam Award for Best Children's Picture Book series! |
| jack kerouac on the road: The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta, 2013 A young Ibo girl named Aku-nna flees an unwanted marriage to be with her true love, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. However, Aku-nna's uncle refuses the bride price from Chike's family, an action that frightens Aku-nna for it foreshadows her own death in childbirth. |
| jack kerouac on the road: The Subterraneans Jack Kerouac, 2011-07-21 'The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair' Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. Written in three days, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac's work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America. |
| jack kerouac on the road: The Sea Is My Brother Jack Kerouac, 2013-03-26 In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness. |
| jack kerouac on the road: The Joan Anderson Letter Neal Cassady, 2020-08-31 A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac.Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired 'On theRoad' along with his new literary style; referring to it as 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw'. The energy ofCassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15,000 word missive; bringinggloriously to life the personality of one of the most high profile figures in literary, and Beat movement, history.This incredibly illusive artefact, which describes in explicit detail his relationship with Joan Anderson ('aperfect beauty of loveliness that I forgot everything else'), had been missing for 60 years when it was discovered in an attic in Oakland, USA, in 2014. Legal machinations over its ownership ensued and it has not been published in its entirety...until now.This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar ProfessorA. Robert Lee. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a raresepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Pic Jack Kerouac, 1971 |
| jack kerouac on the road: Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me Gae Polisner, 2020-04-07 Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is an absolutely real, raw and emotional read, and it's a book that touched my heart with every page. - Katie McGarry, critically acclaimed author of Only a Breath Apart Fifteen-year-old JL Markham’s life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever best friend Aubrey about their families and boys. Together, they were unstoppable. But they aren’t the friends they once were. With JL’s father gone on long term business, and her mother struggling with her mental illness, JL takes solace in the tropical butterflies she raises, and in her new, older boyfriend, Max Gordon. Max may be rough on the outside, but he has the soul of a poet (something Aubrey will never understand). Only, Max is about to graduate, and he's going to hit the road - with or without JL. JL can't bear being left behind again. But what if devoting herself to Max not only means betraying her parents, but permanently losing the love of her best friend? What becomes of loyalty, when no one is loyal to you? Gae Polisner’s Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is a story about the fragility of female friendship, of falling in love and wondering if you are ready for more, and of the glimmers of hope we find by taking stock in ourselves. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Gutshot Amelia Gray, 2015-04-14 “A bizarre and darkly funny world . . . There are fables, horror stories, absurd stories, and more serious stories about love.” —Ramona Ausubel, The New York Times Book Review A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray’s curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. These singular stories live and breathe on their own, pulsating with energy and humanness and a glorious sense of humor. Hers are stories that you will read and reread—raw gems that burrow into your brain, reminders of just how strange and beautiful our world is. These collected stories come to us like a vivisected body, the whole that is all the more elegant and breathtaking for exploring its most grotesque and intimate lightless viscera. “Exhilarating and violently creative, these stories are an assault on expectation. Gutshot is a rare, new original, and Amelia Gray is her own startling genre. This is a book to be experienced, to be taught and obsessed over, to live as a prized weapon on your bookshelf.” —Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa “Gutshot is a wild journey through the singular imagination of Amelia Gray, one of the most ambitious and relentlessly inventive writers of our time. The worlds Gray conjures are gorgeous and gruesome and devastating and stone-cold hilarious—but more than anything, these stories are as fearless and original as they come.” —Laura van den Berg, author of State of Paradise “Viscerally wicked.” —Natalie Beach, O, The Oprah Magazine |
| jack kerouac on the road: Robert Duncan in San Francisco Michael Rumaker, 2013-01-15 A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Visions of Cody Jack Kerouac, 2012-03-01 An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always fixated by Neal Cassady - the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs - Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Doctor Sax Jack Kerouac, 2007-12-01 “Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.” |
| jack kerouac on the road: Come and Join the Dance Joyce Johnson, 2014-06-17 The daring debut of the Beat Generation’s first woman novelist It’s 1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, “What if you lived your entire life without urgency?” just before going out to make things happen to her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of alienation. If Susan continues to be “good,” marriage and security await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that comes from existential freedom. After breaking up with the Columbia boy she knows she could marry, Susan seeks out those she considers “outlaws”: the brave and fragile Kay, who has moved into a rundown hotel, in order to “see more than fifty percent when I walk down the street”; the vulnerable adolescent rebel Anthony; and Peter, the restless hipster graduate student who has become the object of Kay’s unrequited devotion. This fascinating novel—which the author began writing a year before her encounter with Jack Kerouac—is a young woman’s complex response to the liberating messages of the Beat Generation. In a subversive feminist move, Johnson gives her heroine all the freedom the male Beat writers reserved for men, to travel her own road. |
| jack kerouac on the road: Pot Culture Shirley Halperin, Steve Bloom, 2015-06-12 “Essentially an encyclopedia of pot, filled with such top 10 lists as ‘best stoner movies’ . . . plus a ‘pot-parazzi’ section with celebrities sneaking a toke.” —Billboard Do you know the difference between burning one and Burning Man? Does using the name Marley as an adjective make total sense to you? Do you chuckle to yourself when the clock strikes 4:20? Are you convinced that the movie Dazed and Confused deserved an Oscar? If you answered “Dude!” to any of these questions, then Pot Culture is the book you’ve been waiting for. For those in the know, it’s the stoner bible. For novices, it’s Pot 101. Either way, Pot Culture encapsulates the history, lifestyle, and language of a subculture that, with every generation, is constantly redefining itself. From exhaustive lists of stoner-friendly movies, music, and television shows to detailed explanations of various stoner tools to celebrity-authored how-tos and an A-Z compendium of slang words and terms, it’s the ultimate encyclopedia of pot. Written by former High Times editors Shirley Halperin (now a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and a TV talking head) and Steve Bloom (publisher of CelebStoner.com), and featuring contributions by a host of celebrity stoners, including Melissa Etheridge, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Redman, Steve-O, and America’s Next Top Model’s Adrianne Curry, Pot Culture provides the answers to everything you ever wanted to know about pot but were too stoned to ask. “This is a fun book that every toker should get their sticky green fingers on. Clever and informative . . . Great book and a must-buy for all us loadies.” —Blogcritics |
| jack kerouac on the road: Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's on the Road Stephanie Nikolopoulos, Paul Maher Jr, 2015-07-14 Fueled by coffee and pea soup, Jack Kerouac speed-typed On the Road in just three weeks in April 1951. He'd been traveling America for the past ten years and now, at last, the furious energy of his experiences flowed through his fingertips in a mad rush, pealing forth on a makeshift scroll that he laboriously taped together. The On the Road scroll has since become literary legend, and now Burning Furiously Beautiful sets the record straight, uncovering, among other things, the true story behind one of America's greatest novels. Burning Furiously Beautiful explores the real lives of the key characters of the novel. Ride along on the real-life adventures through 1940s America that inspired On the Road. By tracing the evolution of Kerouac's literary development and revealing his startlingly original writing style, this book explains how it took years-not weeks-to ultimately write the seemingly sporadic 1957 novel, On the Road. |
| jack kerouac on the road: The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time) Louis Menand, 2010-01-18 Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, The Marketplace of Ideas examines traditional university institutions, assessing what is worth saving and what is not |
| jack kerouac on the road: In Love Alfred Hayes, 2017-01-26 Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a pretty girl a story: of how he fell into a relationship with a lonely young divorcee; of how one night she was offered a thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Alfred Hayes's exquisite novella, love - in all its bewildering turns of longing, elation, heartbreak and regret - is dissected with unforgettable honesty and heartbreaking clarity. |
| jack kerouac on the road: The Town and the City Jack Kerouac, 1973 |
| jack kerouac on the road: The View from On the Road Omar Swartz, 1999 Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles. To Swartz, Kerouac is a rhetor who symbolically reconstructs his world and offers arguments and encouragements for others to follow. Swartz proposes that On the Road constitutes a rhetorical vision, a reality-defining discourse suggesting alternative possibilities for growth and change. Swartz asserts that the reader of Kerouac's On theRoadbecomes capable of responding to the larger, confusing culture in a strategic manner. Kerouac's rhetorical vision of an alternative social and cultural reality contributes to the identity of localized cultures within the United States. |
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| jack kerouac on the road: Selected Letters, 1957-1969 Jack Kerouac, 1999 The life of an American original in his own words, offering unparalleled insights into the mind and life of a giant of the American literary landscape. |
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In 1957, Jack Kerouac published his novel On the Road, based on wild, improvised trips he’d taken across the USA. With a new film based on the book’s exploits due for imminent release, …
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Selections from On the Road by Jack Kerouac Part one Chapter 1 I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t bother to talk about, …
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From the beginning of the first road trip, in July 1947, through the early spring of 1951, virtually all of the drafts, fragments, and notes for On the Road were written in the often sentimental and …
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CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS IN JACK KEROUAC’S PROSE Mikelli, E. PhD Thesis, Durham University, 2009. This thesis is inspired by the abiding academic and …
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On the Road is Jack Kerouac’s poster-novel for the Beat Generation, a group of writers in the 1950s and 60s who began as a counter-culture artistic movement. The Beat Generation is …
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twenty-seven years ago for editing and publishing Jack Kerouac's still- controversial novel, On the Road. Cowley himself has never written a word about his relationship with Kerouac. Kerouac's …
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On the Road, Regina Weinreich, who along with Tim Hunt examines the jazz influence on the novel in some detail, argues that Kerouac's "notion of improvisation informs the language of …
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Escaping the "death" of a conventional life, writers Sal and Dean embark on an epic road trip criss-crossing the United States. Along the way, they meet unique characters, embrace wild …
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Jack Kerouac: On the Road - Structure and Style 1. Introduction There is not one article on the Beat or SF scene yet that has not been (pro and con) invalidated [...] by the basic fact that the …
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Kerouac’s novel is perhaps the clearest illustration of the shift between an era marked by repression and the uncanny, and the following decade defined by confessionalism and ironic …
A Specific Elsewhere: Locating Masculinity in Jack Kerouac’s On the …
In travelling across the postwar United States, Jack Kerouac hoped to revive what he perceived as the lost essence of America. Kerouac’s travels – many of which were shared with his friend …
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In April 1951, Jack Kerouac sat down in his apartment in New York and wrote the entire novel On the Road in one stretch. It was published by Viking Press six years later.
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This study aims to analyze the theme of rebellion in the American literary fifties in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road. After the Second World War the United States witnessed a huge economic …
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At first glance, John Steinbeck's seminal Depression-era text The Grapes of Wrath (1939) would seem to have little in common with Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). However, like …
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In the preface to his new book The View from "On the Road," Omar Swartz writes that Jack Kerouac's On the Road, "is a rhetorical document with persuasive signifi-cance in helping …
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Kerouac began revising his diaries into what would become On The Road in 1951. From even that short perspective, several things about bop had become clearer. Narrator-Sal intrudes into the …
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On the Road it is always safe to assume that human intuition will outstrip human intellectual potential. The argument, which is heard throughout the novel, seems to be that we always …
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On the Road with Jack London’s tramp work The Road, commenting that not only does Kerouac display that he has learned certain lessons of the hobo community through London’s work, but …
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TO JACK KEROUAC Jack Kerouac is among the most important and in uential writers to emerge from mid-twentieth-century America. Father of the Beat Generation literary movement, …
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Sal Paradise, the protagonist of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road appears as a rebel and dissenter who takes to the road in the American hinterland with the anticipation of meeting his personal ...
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you could call my life on the road. Before that I'd often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off. Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he …
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Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is both a travel story and a cultural event. Although road narratives have been critically examined from numerous angles, few studies have addressed how time …
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On the Road BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF JACK KEROUAC Born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac grew up in a Catholic household and eventually earned a football scholarship to …
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autobiographical - Dean Moriarty in On the road is based on Neal Cassady, and Sal Paradise on Kerouac himself - Off the road is a useful counter-source of information and a counterview of …
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The above testify to Jack Kerouac’s ongoing appeal both in the United States and in Europe, and indicate the extent to which Kerouac continues to be influential both on a literary and a cultural …
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8 Oct 2020 · While conceptualizing On the Road, Jack Kerouac references The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. The parallels between the two authors expose how elements characteristic of …
Expanding Jack Kerouac’s “America”: Canadian Revisions of On the Road
Fans of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road are offered a facile lesson in American history. Readers race alongside Sal Paradise as he sweeps across the land, paus - ing to exult in the vastness of …
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Rucksacks in the Classroom: Teaching Jack Kerouac in the Twenty-First Century Ellis Amburn. Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life ofJack Kerouac. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. …
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To Be or Not to Bop: Jack Kerouac's On The Road and the culture of bebop and rhythm 'n' blues David Hopkins The appearance of On the Road in 1957 signalled the emergence of a new …
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On the Road marked Jack Kerouac’s introduction to the mass literary scene in America. Not published until 1957, seven years after its initial completion, famously produced on a long …
Improvisation on the Way: Jazz and Kerouac’s On the Road
On the Road, the most important literature of Jack Kerouac, is regarded as one of the most classical works of the Beat Generation. Descriptions of Jazz occur repeatedly in this novel. …
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Jack Kerouac se narodil 12. března 1922 v americkém Massachusetts jako nejmladší ze tří dětí. Když byly Jackovi čtyři roky, zemřel mu devítiletý bratr, což ho poznamenalo, velmi se upnul …
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Visions of Kerouac: The John Sampas Collection 4 Required Credit Line: When sharing items from this collection, please include the above citation. Processing Information: Processed by …
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Kerouac’s . On the Road. The publication of the writing that Kerouac did before On the Road, and particularly the writing he did before The Town and the City, offers almost ... Jack Kerouac has …
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paradox exemplifies the reception of Kerouac in France and Quebec. Generally named in lists of writers representing a certain concept or idea, Kerouac is never the object of extended study …
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Jack Kerouac Collected Haikus* *Haiku is both singular and plural. Kerouac’s usage of ... Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was …
Expanding Jack Kerouac’s “America”: Canadian Revisions of On the Road
Fans of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road are offered a facile lesson in American history. Readers race alongside Sal Paradise as he sweeps across the land, paus - ing to exult in the vastness of …
Ghosting Susquehanna: From The Road to On the Road, Jack …
From The Road to On the Road, Jack London’s “Haunting” of Jack Kerouac Michael J. Martin I n a 1948 journal entry, Jack Kerouac wrote, “I’m a ‘writer’— and I never should have been a …
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study of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, probably the single most important work of Beat art. Kerouac is one of the key figures of the Beat Generation. At Columbia University in New York …
What Connects You and Me? The Dualism and Friendship of Sal …
In Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Travis G. Williams There are multiple connections we can take from On the Road written by Jack Kerouac and from Allen Ginsberg’s work. On the Road has …
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Jack Kerouac's On the Road Harold Bloom,2004 Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and includes a chronology, a bibliography, …
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Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting (1993) are novels that have come to be seen as countercultural icons. On the Road chronicles the journeys of Dean …
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consumerism in America, and Jack Kerouac with his novel On the Road was one such voice of dissent. Kerouac's novel is among the first to question America's booming post-war economy …
“A Nakedness of Mind”: Gender, Individualism and Collectivism in Jack …
When reading through Jack Kerouac’s magnificent road-trip tale On the Road for the first time, one may get caught up in Sal Paradise’s and Dean Moriarty’s unfastidious relish for life, in …
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another rewrite by Kerouac as well as further revision by editors at Viking Press. Kerouac himself suggested that the published version of On the Road, far from being a spontaneous …
The Attitude towards Women in Kerouac's Novel On the Road
history and then explicitly analyze the attitudes of men towards women in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road. It will debate the perspective, behavior, and language used to describe and talk …
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pessimistic, "beat" language of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). This statement about the film's relationship to the iconic post- World War II American road novel, of course, begs the …
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Jack Kerouac’s French, American, and Quebecois Receptions: From Deterritorialization to Reterritorialization Susan Pinette ... in Paris is Kerouac ‘on the road’ in France as he speeds …
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Jack Kerouac, The Writer Jack Kerouac is a writer who wrote his ‘songs’ in spoken language to be read and sung sometimes aloud. He wrote about his childhood, his adoles-cence and his …
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Fremont Great Books Discussion Questions “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac May 28, 2022 Page 1 1. “On the Road” was written in 1951 as a single scroll (via typewriter) typifying Kerouac’s …
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On the Road from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac…
On the Road. in 1957, Jack Kerouac became a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the “King” of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one …
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you could call my life on the road. Before that I'd often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off. Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he …
On the Road: The Original Scroll - The Beat Studies Association
To paraphrase Gilbert Millstein, the publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road: The Original Scroll is a historic occasion as it exposes an authentic work of art. At long last, readers can …
A Journey with no Destination: Anarchetypal Patterns in Jack Kerouac…
Abstract: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is one of United States’s best known travel narratives, a novel that fictionalizes key moments and characters from the 1950s and wraps them in the …
Article: Off the Beaten Track: Jack Kerouac on Robert Frank …
to Frank’s collection of road photographs, The Americans (1958). Frank showed Kerouac a dummy of his book, asking if he would write an introduction for it. Kerouac liked Frank’s road …
Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac
Kerouac himself defined the word "beat" as a combination of many different connotations, including spiritually beatific, run down or tired, and musical. The novel that made the …
