Jean-Louis Lebris de (Jack) Kerouac (1922-1969), American writer, experimented with spontaneous autobiographical fiction chronicling his travels into the American West. He is known as the father of the Beat Generation. Rambling. Wandering. Overflowing. L...
Jack Kerouac, once called "our most misunderstood and underestimated writer," is gradually emerging from that limbo, though much about him remains obscure. The obscurity results from a misreading of his books by critics who, borne along by Cold War preju...
Jack Kerouac died, as he had spent much of his adult life, writing. The morning of October 20, 1969, he was sitting in front of his television at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, jotting down notes when a vein in his stomach ruptured. A hard-drinking...
Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend....
Country Willie Nelson Willie Nelson drifts on to the stage at the Shepherds Bush Empire as if it is the most natural thing in the world to be a 71-year-old living legend whose music puts country, pop, soul, Tex-Mex and the blues...
THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS, by Aharon Appelfeld; translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 137 pp. $15.95. Shadows fall the wrong way in "The Immortal Bartfuss." Although Aharon Appelfeld evokes a very palpable world, the teeming little cafes and the seaside kiosks of...
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