Helen Weaver Interview
Recent history has seen the women in the life of Jack Kerouac finally bring to public attention...
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Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable
by David S. Wills The novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen: it has...
Read MoreDo the Beats Matter Today?
by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the time, many critics announced the Beat Generation was irrelevant and had faded away. Others claimed the Beats were an insignificant...
Read MoreThe Sea is my Brother
Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat enthusiasts are still getting to read fresh material, as publishers trawl through his estate for...
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The Breton Traveller
Jack Kerouac’s Search for his Roots Much has been written about Kerouac’s apparent...
Read MoreJack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard
By Kristin McLaughlin Without Gerard, what would have happened to Ti Jean? – Jack Kerouac[1] Visions of Gerard is Kerouac’s prolonged meditation on his older, saintly brother Gerard, who died at the age of nine (Jack was four at...
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Alene Lee – Subterranean Muse
by Steven O’Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of...
Read MoreKerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle
by Dave Moore It was Horst who started it. Horst Spandler has been translating the 1971 Kerouac anthology Scattered Poems into German. Along the way he’s been asking others their advice on the meaning of parts of Jack’s poems....
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