jack kerouac

The Battle for Kerouac’s Estate

“Money is the root of all evil”For I willWriteIn my will“I regret that I was not ableTo love money more.”Jack…

16 years ago

Helen Weaver Interview

Recent history has seen the women in the life of Jack Kerouac finally bring to public attention their side of…

16 years ago

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 dozens of…

16 years ago

Do the Beats Matter Today?

by Harry Burrus When Jack Kerouac died in 1969, only one of his 20+ books was in print. At the…

16 years ago

The Sea is my Brother

Since the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Kerouac has been somewhat revitalized. Despite being dead for forty years, Beat…

17 years ago

The Breton Traveller

Jack Kerouac’s Search for his Roots Much has been written about Kerouac's apparent rootlessness being the driving force behind his…

17 years ago

Jack 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…

17 years ago

Alene Lee – Subterranean Muse

by Steven O'Sullivan Alene Lee is the real name of The Subterraneans’ Mardou Fox, and of Irene May from Big…

17 years ago

Kerouac 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…

17 years ago

The Beats & Sixties Counterculture

The 1960s are associated with what Frank calls ‘the big change, the birthplace of our own culture, the homeland of…

17 years ago

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