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Conversations with Jack Kerouac

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578067565
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Jack Kerouac written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, the revolutionary zeal of his novels and the originality of his voice ensure that his books are continually popular. Whether because of his literary merits or his status as the voice of a new generation of writers, Kerouac is the unchallenged king of the Beat generation. Conversations with Jack Kerouac features interviews ranging from 1957 to 1969, covering the breadth of the author's fame and literary output. Including a piece from the Paris Review and a confrontational interview with CBS's Mike Wallace, the collection reveals Kerouac-whether drunk or sober, erudite or infantile, guarded or convivial-as a thoughtful writer and complex thinker who resisted all labels placed on him. The interviews show how Kerouac revitalized American literature, but they also trace his artistic and physical decline. The final interviews show how much the writer had crippled himself emotionally with too much alcohol and how his art became more unfocused as a result. Ultimately, Kerouac emerges as a tragic figure whose early greatness in such books as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and The Subterraneans was subsequently consumed by his inability to evolve aesthetically and by his reliance on substance abuse for inspiration. Kevin J. Hayes, Oklahoma City, is professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. His previous books include Poe and the Printed Word, Folklore and Book Culture, and An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887, among others.

Imaginary Conversation with Jack Kerouac

Author : Jack Micheline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929730073
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Conversation with Jack Kerouac written by Jack Micheline and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101437138
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement Writers and cultural icons Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before. Commencing in 1944 while Ginsberg was a student at Columbia University and continuing until shortly before Kerouac's death in 1969, the two hundred letters included in this book provide astonishing insight into their lives and their writing. While not always in agreement, Ginsberg and Kerouac inspired each other spiritually and creatively, and their letters became a vital workshop for their art. Vivid, engaging, and enthralling, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters provides an unparalleled portrait of the two men who led the cultural and artistic movement that defined their generation.

Jack's Book

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580461
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Jack's Book written by Barry Gifford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.

Off the Road

Author : Carolyn Cassady
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468305719
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Off the Road written by Carolyn Cassady and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Visions of Cody

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141972009
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Cody written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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's On the Road

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791075818
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jack Kerouac's On the Road written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is Dead to Me

Author : Gae Polisner
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250312256
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me written by Gae Polisner and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Book of Sketches

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142002155
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Book of Sketches written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.

Subterranean Kerouac

Author : Ellis Amburn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312206772
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Kerouac written by Ellis Amburn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-11-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first biography of Jack Kerouac to fully portray the intense inner life that inspired his work, Kerouac's last editor addresses the writer's homosexual relationships with men, and sheds a new light on their profound impact upon his life. of photos.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac

Author : Paul Maher Jr
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781796947533
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac written by Paul Maher Jr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empty Phantoms: Collected Interviews with Jack Kerouac gathers together, for the first time in one volume, all known printed, recorded, and filmed interviews-including those celebrated, infamous, or obscure-with the acclaimed American writer and father of the Beats, Jack Kerouac. Editor Paul Maher, one of the leaders of Kerouac scholarship, has scoured newspapers to glean interviews unseen for decades.Although many top-notch journalists, from Mike Wallace to William F. Buckley, conducted the interviews, it is Kerouac who dominates the proceedings, with his energy, wit, passion, anger, astute insights, playfulness, literary integrity, and searching spirituality. Best of all, the interviews are replete with Kerouacisms like "walking on water wasn't built in a day, wisdom is heartless," and "pity dogs and forgive men," which have been a cherished aspect of Kerouac's literature.Beyond his own works, this living portrait of Kerouac isn't available anywhere else.This new addition has been published with added material. 1. Nashua Telegraph (February 13, 1951)2. First Reader of On the Road Manuscript: An Excerpt from the Journals of John Clellon Holmes3. Neal & Allen: Notes on a Conversation about Kerouac from the Journal of Allen Ginsberg, August 19544. Carolyn Cassady on Kerouac5. Village Voice (February 13, 1957)6. San Francisco Examiner (June 1957)7. Lowell Sun (September 15, 1957)8. Village Voice (September 18, 1957)9. New York Herald Tribune (September 22, 1957)10. Saturday Review (September 28, 1957)11. Saturday Review (September 1957)12. Village Voice (December 25, 1957)13. The Nation (January 4, 1958)14. New York Post (January 21, 1958)15. UPI syndicated (April 9, 1958)16. United Press Syndicate (July 13, 1958)17. San Francisco Examiner (October 5, 1958)18. WABC-TV (October 17, 1958)19. Village Voice (November 19, 1958)20. Lilliput (January 1959)21. New York Post (March 30, 1959)22. Lowell Sun (April 17, 1959)23. The Steve Allen Pontiac Show (January 16, 1959)24. Newsday (February 16, 1961)25. New York Daily News (December 14, 1961)26. The Great Rememberer: from Gone in October: Last Reflections on Jack Kerouac27. Lowell Sun (September 20, 1962)28. Lowell Sun (September 25, 1962)29. Lowell Sun (October 2, 1962)30. WCAP (October 1962)31. Lowell Sun (October 24, 1962)32. Lowell Sun (October 25, 1962)33. Press Release for Visions of Gerard (1963)34. A Strange Game of Baseball with a Legendary Writer - Stan Isaacs35. Lowell Sun (March 30, 1964)36. Long Island Newsday (July 18, 1964)37. Yarmouth Port Register - undated38. Sel de la Semaine (March 7, 1967)39. Paris Review (No.43, Summer 1968)40. from Talking in Tranquility: Interviews with Ted Berrigan, Bolinas, 199141. Boston Globe (August 1968)42. "Firing Line with William F. Buckley"

Book of Blues

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548800
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Book of Blues written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same instrumental blues form that he used to fullest effect in Mexico City Blues, his largely unheralded classic of postmodern literature. Edited by Kerouac himself, Book of Blues is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness, rich with imagery, propelled by rythm, and based in a reverent attentiveness to the moment. "In my system, the form of blues choruses is limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus, and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from one chorus into another, or not, just like the phrase-meaning can carry harmonically from one chorus to the other, or not, in jazz, so that, in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musicians spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." —Jack Kerouac

Old Angel Midnight

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504033973
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Old Angel Midnight written by Jack Kerouac and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensory narrative poem capturing the rhythms of the universe and secrets of the subconscious with stunning linguistic dexterity from the author of On the Road A spontaneous writing project in the form of an extended prose poem, this sonorous and spiritually playful book is one of Jack Kerouac’s most boldly experimental works. Collected from five notebooks dating from 1956 to 1959—a time in which Kerouac was immersed in Buddhist theory—Old Angel Midnight is comprised of sixty-seven short sections unified by an unwavering dedication to sounds, the subconscious, and verbal ingenuity. Friday Afternoon in the Universe, in all directions in & out you got your men women dogs children horses pones tics perts parts pans pools palls pails parturiences and petty Thieveries that turn into heavenly Buddha. Thus begins Kerouac’s Joycean language dance. From birdsong to dharmic verse, street jargon to French slang, the resonances of the universe come blaring in though the windows, unfurling their meaning as the mind lets go and listens.

Jack Kerouac

Author : Paul Maher Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792961069
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Jack Kerouac written by Paul Maher Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Kerouac: Collected Interviews with Jack Kerouac gathers together, in one volume, all known printed, recorded, and filmed interviews--including those celebrated, infamous, or obscure--with the acclaimed American writer and father of the Beats, Jack Kerouac.In many instances, the interviews are transcribed from original tapes and are either unabridged, like the famous "Paris Review" interview in which the journal was excised for space constraints, or unexpurgated, such as in the infamous Northport Library interview, which had been edited to avoid issues of libel and charges of anti-Semitism. Editor Paul Maher, one of the leading young lions of Kerouac scholarship, has scoured newspapers to glean interviews unseen for decades.Although many top-notch journalists, from Mike Wallace to William F. Buckley, conducted the interviews, it is Kerouac who dominates the proceedings, with his energy, wit, passion, anger, astute insights, playfulness, literary integrity, and searching spirituality. Best of all, the interviews are replete with Kerouacisms like "walking on water wasn't built in a day, wisdom is heartless," and "pity dogs and forgive men," which have been a cherished aspect of Kerouac's literature.Beyond his own works, this living portrait of Kerouac isn't available anywhere else.

The Sea Is My Brother

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822474
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Sea Is My Brother written by Jack Kerouac and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Voice Is All

Author : Joyce Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110160106X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Voice Is All written by Joyce Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac’s French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider’s vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road, followed by Visions of Cody. By illuminating Kerouac’s early choice to sacrifice everything to his work, The Voice Is All deals with him on his own terms and puts the tragic contradictions of his nature and his complex relationships into perspective.

Maggie Cassidy

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548797
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Maggie Cassidy written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of adolescence and first love One of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959, after the appearance of On the Road had made its author famous overnight. Long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, with its straight-forward narrative structure, is one of Kerouac's most accesible works. It is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America.