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Orpheus Emerged

by Jack Kerouac

Recently discovered by the estate of Jack Kerouac, Orpheus Emerged chronicles the passions, conflicts, and dreams of a group of bohemians searching for truth while studying at a university. Written shortly after the iconic Beat author met Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and others in and around Columbia University, the story showcases the emerging core of the Beat Generation. Orpheus Emerged is... (more)

Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac

Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac

by Gerald Nicosia

In 1969 Jack Kerouac died a premature death. While his legendary lifestyle and unique creative talent made him a hero in his lifetime, his literary influence has grown steadily since. With Memory Babe (a childhood nickname honoring Kerouac's feats of memory), Gerald Nicosia gives us a complete biography of Jack Kerouacan honest, discriminating and, above all, compassionate assessment. This... (more)

Collected Letters, 1944-1967

by Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character "Dean Moriarty" in Kerouac’s classic On The Road , and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus "Further," immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test . This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon... (more)

Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg

Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg

by Carolyn Cassady

The intimate story of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady written by the woman who loved them both. Off the Road is not only Carolyn Cassady's poignant account of their stormy love triangle, but a lively and accurate portrait of the Beat generation. Includes previously unpublished letters, photographs, and drawings from the author's private collection.

The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

by Jack Kerouac

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

Vanity of Duluoz : An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

Vanity of Duluoz : An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

by Jack Kerouac

Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946," this book is a key volume in Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. A wonderfully unassuming look back at the origins of his career--a prehistory of the Beat era, written from the perspective of the psychedelic '60s.

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

Satori in Paris

by Jack Kerouac

Satori in Paris and Pic, two of Jack Kerouac's last novels, showcase the remarkable range and versatility of his mature talent. Satori in Paris is a rollicking autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, and lands the author in his familiar milieu of seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic is Kerouac's final novel and one of his most unusual. Narrated by ten-year-old Pictorial... (more)

Angelheaded hipster : a life of Jack Kerouac

Angelheaded hipster : a life of Jack Kerouac

by Steve Turner

An illustrated biography draws on interviews with Kerouac's friends, conversations with Allen Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs, and the body of Kerouac scholarship to provide a definitive portrait of of the iconoclastic rebel. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

by Jack Kerouac

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 country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting... (more)

Visions of Cody

by Jack Kerouac

Beat generation : 3-act play

by Jack Kerouac

Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma—what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throwaway little... (more)

by Jack Kerouac

Swinging to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of beat.

Jack's BookLawrence Lee, Barry Gifford

Jack's Book

by Lawrence Lee, Barry Gifford

Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village

Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village

by Fred W. McDarrah

Trip Trap

by Albert Saijo, Lew Welch, Robert Gluck, Jack Kerouac

On a rainy night in San Francisco, just before Thanksgiving in 1959, Jack Kerouac, 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 Kerouac's mother's home on Long Island. Trip Trap is a record of that journey, notes from the road by three of the central figures of the Beat Movement as they shared booze and coffee and peanut butter... (more)

Go: A Novel

by John Clellon Holmes

The novel that launched the beat generation’s literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady. Drafted two months before Jack Kerouac began On The Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives lived by the Beats before they became public figures. In honest, lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events, emotions, and essence of his experience... (more)

Kerouac. Biography of Ann Charters.Ann Charters

Kerouac. Biography of Ann Charters.

by Ann Charters

Old Angel Midnight

by Michael McClure, Jack Kerouac

Renowned "Beat Generation" poet and author Jack Kerouac says of OLD ANGEL MIDNIGHT, "(it) is only the beginning of a lifelong work in multilingual sound . . . of babbling world tongues coming in thru my window at midnight no matter where I live or what I'm doing. . . . And it is the only book I've ever written in which I allow myself the right to say anything I want, absolutely and positively anything, since... (more)

You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac

You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac

by Edie Parker Kerouac

"You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it."-William S. Burroughs Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found... (more)

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