Jack Kerouac
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Kerouac's White Line Through America
It doesn't take a academic essay to understand the roots of the Beat Generation or Jack Kerouac but dozens have been written and some are worth reading. The passion and zest that flowed through the veins of the Beats is what flows through all of us. The Beats and later many of the Hippies lived without tamping down life's passion and conforming to what they saw as outdated rules and restrictive morals.
Words often naked and scared dripping onto the paper to expose or explain what many never even knew they were feeling. Kerouac was able for a short time to hold it all in his hands, hold it all in his vision. Then it was gone. It wasn't as if Jack Kerouac eschewed the middle class values of hot dogs and apple pie, his experiences unfolded deep within that middle class America and at the same time existed outside convention.
NEWS
This year (2010) the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac. runs from Sept 30th - Oct 3rd.
Information about the film Lowell Blues " The words of Jack Kerouac" can be found at here Ferrini production site.
My Life With Jack Kerouac
You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac
Amazon Price: $5.90 (as of 02/18/2012)
Those who read only the best-known works of the Beat Generation--Ginsberg's Howl, Kerouac's On the Road, Burroughs's Naked Lunch--will be forgiven for thinking that the Beats were a misogynistic lot: women, when they appeared at all, were cast in minor roles, and it is only in recent years that we have begun to hear their side of the story. You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac is Edie Kerouac-Parker's account of her marriage to Jack Kerouac
Beat Generation
Places To Visit - Things To See
City Lights Books
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Lowell National Historic Museum
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The Beat Museum
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Neal's Denver
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Denver Beat Tour
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Beats In Kansas
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Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
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Jack Kerouac's Lowell
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On the Road in Lowell
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
read it and maybe you'll get to see it sometime
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $9.64 (as of 02/18/2012)
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
Houses and Books
Dharma Bums
seeking the world through experience outside and in
The Dharma Bums
Amazon Price: $28.95 (as of 02/18/2012)
Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara.
Kerouac Keeps Writing
1982 Audio Podcast From Naropa
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Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa
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The Kerouac Ledger
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LindaJM
Aug 18, 2007 @ 11:44 pm | delete
- Cool info. Great links. I love this topic!!
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sonia_simone
Aug 18, 2007 @ 9:39 pm | delete
- Great topic for a lens! I was always more drawn to Ginsberg than Kerouac (and I'm fascinated by Trungpa Rinpoche), but any lens that lets me vote for City Lights is ok by me.
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