Jack Kerouac

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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 The Beats and latter many of the Hippies lived without tamping down life's passion and conforming to what they saw as outdated rules and restrictive morals.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. 

NEWS 

The Scroll that Kerouac used to write On The Road is on display in Lowell Ma until October 14th, 2007 and will then move on to another destination.

First week in Oct is the 20th annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.

Information about the film Lowell Blues " The words of Jack Kerouac" can be found at here Ferrini production site.

Read: Edie Kerouac-Parker (Recomended) 

women writers, burroughs and ginsberg

You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac

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New Flickr Photos 

the birth of the beat generation by Nmarie

a report from the bunker by Nmarie

John Cohen: Beat Generation section by PRCBoston

Beat Hotel by PunkyScudMonkey

The Six Gallery, San Francisco (the yellow building). by Mojohealy

Kerouac's Scroll - Read This and Then Go See It !! 

On the Road: The Original Scroll

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Kerouac Scroll Unrolled

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Kerouac, Ginsberg & friends in New York

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Bibliomania: On the Road with Jack Kerouac, Part 1

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Jack Kerouac

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Dr Sax - Excerpt

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Houses and Books 

29 Russell Street, San Francisco. by Mojohealy

Nam Yuen Chinese Restaurant. by Mojohealy

Beats by Dimitri Gurgel Diniz

the beats by Nmarie

the improper bohemians by Nmarie

Kerouac Keeps Writing 

Big Sur

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Book of Haikus (Poets, Penguin)

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Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses

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Dr. Sax

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Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America

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1982 Audio Podcast From Naropa 

Excerpts from the Kerouac Conference held at Naropa University in 1982 that explore Jack Kerouac's life and how "On the Road" came to be a landmark pulsing with honesty for a newly-formed beat generation. Featuring Anne Charters, Ted Berrigan, Gregory Corso, John Holmes, Allen Ginsberg and David Amram

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Others On The Road 

Collected Poems 1947-1997

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Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)

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Collected Letters, 1944-1967

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Reconstructing the Beats

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The Naropa Project Archive RSS Feed. 

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa

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Outside Looking In 

Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero

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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

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The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation as Spirit Guides

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Encyclopedia of Beat Literature (Literary Movements)

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The Kerouac Ledger 

LindaJM wrote...

Cool info. Great links. I love this topic!!

ReplyPosted August 18, 2007

sonia_simone wrote...

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.

ReplyPosted August 18, 2007

 

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