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| | Jack Kerouac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A book of his haikus and dreams also were published, giving interesting insight into how his mind worked. | | | Key to the characters in Jack Kerouac's books, and their real-life counterparts | | | It was at about the time that Kerouac wrote The Subterraneans that he was approached by Ginsberg and others to formally explicate exactly how he wrote it, how he did Spontaneous Prose. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac
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| | Culture Wars Magazine - The Apocalypse of Jack Kerouac |
| | Jack was devoted to Gerard, who by all accounts was a remarkably pious boy, gentle and kind, with a special gift for animals evidenced by the birds that gathered on his window sill. | | | Kerouac is being described by some of his new fans as "a devout Roman Catholic." Hmmm. | | | Gabrielle Kerouac ran her household in French, and even at age 18 one of the more influential American novelists of the twentieth century was far from fluent in English. |
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http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html
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| | Jack Kerouac |
| | Jack Kerouac was among the first - perhaps the first - who coined the phrase 'the beat generation', source of the word 'beatnik'. | | | The book was part of the author's massive series The Duluoz Legend, in which he told the story of his life from 1922 to the summer of 1965. | | | It depicted Kerouac's - Leo Percepied in the book - affair with Mardou Fox, a mulatto woman. |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kerouac.htm
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| | American Authors |
| | Jack was pleased by his triumph and proud of the departure he had made from "previous American Lit." "I really wrote a great book," he assured Cassady in one letter; in another he promised: "I won't get the screwing Melville got"--referring to the great 19th century writer who had labored through life in obscurity. | | | There Jack wrote poetry, experimented with drugs, and fell in love with a Mexican prostitute--a doomed affair he later wrote about in Tristessa. | | | The Dharma Bums (1958) dealt with the West Coast Beats; Visions of Cody (1960) was another paean to Cassady based upon taped conversations in which Neal expounded upon his girls, cars, and travels. |
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http://www.americanlegends.com/authors/kerouac.html
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| | NPR : Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Present at the Creation |
| | He would soon be a literary star, but on the eve of the book's publication, Kerouac actually had to borrow money for a bus ticket to New York from his girlfriend at the time, Joyce Johnson. | | | Neal Cassady, left, and Jack Kerouac on the cover of a recent edition of On the Road. | | | However, he continues, "What Jack Kerouac also knew was that... |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/ontheroad
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| | Jack Kerouac's Big Sur |
| | Once again, I am disturbed by Jack's superficial concept of love and women: he loves Billie's physical appearance (just like a young male friend of Jack's) and he loves the sound of her voice, but he finds almost everything she says of the utmost disinterest and boredom. | | | In this book, too, he emphasizes his respect and love for Evelyn (Cody's wife), her intelligence and just talking to her, as well as making love to her. | | | The eager young man who wanted to tap Jack's knowledge of writing a decade and more before, still has what Jack considers: |
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http://www.angelfire.com/or/rainblessed/BigSur.html
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| | Books by Jack Kerouac |
| | Written in 1953, published in 1959 (after the 1957 publication of Kerouac's On the Road made him famous overnight) and long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town is one of Kerouac's most accessible works. | | | Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. | | | Written in an experimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady, which he captured in a different form for On the Road. |
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http://www.citylights.com/beat/CLjk.html
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| | Jack Kerouac's Lowell: A Walking Tour of Downtown. |
| | Jack Kerouac would be familiar with the site chosen for The Commemorative. | | | In the 1930's, Kerouac hung out with friends in the Square, and in the early 1940's he worked for a time as a Sun sportswriter. | | | Stella Sampas Kerouac, the author's wife, agreed to the placement of Kerouac's text. |
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http://ecommunity.uml.edu/jklowell/jkdtt.html
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| | COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-Jack Kerouac Chronology Plate |
| | A vanguard writer, Kerouac's importance to 20th century literature is undisputed. | | | ¶Jack Kerouac: Prophet of the New Romanticism by Robert A. Hipkiss is published. | | | He is the third child (second son) of Leo and Gabrielle Kerouac. |
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http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/jkchrono.html
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| | Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/David Amram discusses Jack Kerouac in an exclusive interview with Jerry Jazz Musician |
| | Amram is also known as the musical collaborator of the great mid-century American author Jack Kerouac, whose book On the Road is considered to be the artistic soul of the 1950's. | | | Criticism was hard for him because so much of it was not about how the book was constructed or the contents of it, but the criticism centered on him, personally. | | | You wrote in your book, "I knew the time I spent with Jack (Kerouac) was always precious. |
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http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=amram.html
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| | American Writers: Video Clip List |
| | How Sampas makes decisions about managing Kerouac's estate-doesn't want to be too commercial; wants to preserve image of him as a "writer" and of a good looking "American" writer | | | Song written by Kerouac, David Amram and others; spontaneous prose by Amram | | | Audio tape of Kerouac reading from his book, On the Road |
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http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/clips35_kerouac.asp
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| | DHARMA beat - A Jack Kerouac website |
| | Kerouac BOOKS - And others that might be of interest. | | | We publish information of interest about Kerouac events and happenings around the world. | | | And visit our calendar page for Kerouac events happening near you. |
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http://www.wordsareimportant.com/dharmabeat.htm
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| | The Beat Page - Jack Kerouac |
| | Practically all of Kerouac's books are said to be autobiographical. | | | His first book was published in 1950 and titled The Town and the City. | | | Kerouac, along with other notable writers and artists such as Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs and Snyder led the lifestyles celebrated by his novels and were all writers of the Beat Generation whose influence on American Literature is of notable importance. |
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http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/kerouac.html
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| | Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] at Maison d'Être Beatnik Coffeehouse |
| | The publication of bestseller "On The Road" in 1957 propelled Jack into the public spotlight, where he was not comfortable: he was dubbed 'King of the Beats'. | | | ack Kerouac's importance in XXth Century literature is undisputed. | | | Upon his return from Europe, he moved in with his mother again, in Massachusetts. |
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http://www.genordell.com/stores/maison/jack.htm
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| | On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Manuscript - SFPL.org |
| | Jack Kerouac wrote the manuscript for the now classic Beat Generation novel On the Road within a 20-day period in New York City in 1951 employing “spontaneous prose,” a nonstop, unedited style inspired by letters from his friend Neal Cassady. | | | Join us when Brenda Knight, author of Women of the Beat Generation discusses the lives and times of the Beats with Eileen Kaufman, Mary Norbert Korte, Jamie Cassady and Joanna McClure. | | | This manuscript is on loan from the collection of James S. Irsay. |
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http://sfpl.org/news/ontheroad.htm
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| | Critical Thinkers :: Jack Kerouac Resources |
| | Without the flash style of Bohemian Ink, Literary Kicks' Kerouac pages take a deep, fulfilling cut into Kerouac. | | | We publish information of interest about Kerouac events and happenings around the world. | | | Unflinching and glitterless in its depiction of Kerouac et. |
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http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/kerouac.htm
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| | Quotes from Kerouac |
| | "Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. | | | That from Heaven grace descends, the ministers thereof...No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. |
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http://www.tijean.freeserve.co.uk/quotes.htm
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| | Lowell National Historical Park - Jack Kerouac |
| | He is best known for his "road" books, such as Visions of Cody, Dharma Bums, and especially On the Road, which chronicle his restless travels. | | | Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) wrote a spontaneous, sometimes raw prose that captured the immediacy of experience. | | | Kerouac also wrote five books largely set in Lowell, notably The Town and the City, in which he calls his hometown "Galloway": The Merrimac River, broad and placid, flows down to it from the New Hampshire hills, broken at the falls to make frothy havoc on the rocks... |
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http://www.nps.gov/lowe/loweweb/Lowell_History/kerouac.htm
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| | Official web site of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! |
| | Short readings from passages dedicated to Jack and words of remembrance by personal friends of Lucien Carr, Robert Creeley, Philip Lamantia, and Hunter S. Thompson. | | | P.M. -2:00 UMASS Conference keynote speaker, Sam Kashner, author of When I Was Cool, his account of life as the first student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. | | | March 12, 2005 was the first official celebration of Jack Kerouac day throughout the Commonwealth by act of the state legislature. |
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http://lckorg.tripod.com
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| | David Amram - Home Page |
| | Many thanks to Michael Monteleone, filmmaker and Lord Buckley Scholar, for substantial contributions to the design of this website. | | | Kerouac and Amram - Keeping the Flame Alive | | | Reviews of Amram's books, "Vibrations" and "Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac" |
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http://www.davidamram.com
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| | LitKicks: Jack Kerouac |
| | Certainly the Beat Generation was a fad, Kerouac knew, but his own writing was not. | | | His friends loved the manuscript, and Ginsberg asked his Columbia professors to help find a publisher for it. | | | Kerouac had already begun writing a novel, stylistically reminiscent of Thomas Wolfe, about the torments he was suffering as he tried to balance his wild city life with his old-world family values. |
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http://www.litkicks.com/People/JackKerouac.html
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| | Jack Kerouac - Salon |
| | Jack Kerouac's lost 1945 novella has been rediscovered and given new life as an e-book. | | | Reading their love letters from before I was born is an eerie experience. | | | Matt Dillon stars in the new audio release of Jack Kerouac's infamous tale of social disillusionment, drugs, alcohol and mysticism. |
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http://dir.salon.com/topics/jack_kerouac
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| | Jack Kerouac LiteraryTraveler.com |
| | Jack Kerouac is known in the popular imagination as the harbinger of the Beat movement - a free-wheeling spirit who 'hit the road' in search of a good time and the meaning of life and in the process developed a blazing new literary style. | | | In 1957, Jack Kerouac, a French Canadian kid from the mill-town of Lowell, Massachusetts, published his second novel, On the Road, and became an instant celebrity. | | | On the road tracing the steps of Jack Kerouac, along with a look at his estate controversy, and sale of his scroll. |
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http://www.literarytraveler.com/issue/jack_kerouac_road_articles.aspx
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| | American Writers: Jack Kerouac |
| | The wild, unedited spontaneity of its prose shocked more polished writers, drew public attention to a widespread subterranean culture of poets, folksingers, hipsters, mystics, and eccentrics, and made Kerouac a well-known and charismatic figure. | | | He gave prose and poetry readings (often backed up by jazz musicians) and made other public appearances, and his life was followed by legions of young people. | | | f French-Canadian descent, Kerouac learned English as a schoolboy. |
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http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/kerouac.asp
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| | Kerouac, Spontaneous Prose |
| | English 88 "chapter" in which Kerouac is prominent | | | STRUCTURE OF WORK Modern bizarre structures (science fiction, etc.) arise from language being dead, "different" themes give illusion of "new" life. |
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http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-spontaneous.html
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| | Jack Kerouac |
| | After studying briefly at Columbia University, he achieved fame with his spontaneous and unconventional prose, particularly the novel On the Road (1957). | | | His loosely structured, autobiographical works reflect a peripatetic life, with warm but stormy relationships and a deep social disillusionment assuaged by drugs, alcohol, mysticism, and biting humor. | | | After the success of this work Kerouac produced a series of thematically and structurally similar novels, including The Dharma Bums and The Subterraneans (both 1958), Doctor Sax (1959), Lonesome Traveler (1960), and Big Sur (1962). |
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http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kerouac.htm
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| | Kerouac Speaks |
| | This is a group that talks about Kerouac and other beat related authors and things via e-mail. | | | If you liked this page with Kerouac reading his works, here's a page you'll probably also like. | | | Here are some sounds of Kerouac reading from the first section of October in the Railroad Earth. |
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http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/k_speaks/kerouacspeaks.html
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| | Jack Kerouac - Wikiquote |
| | We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time. | | | Jack Kerouac (12 March 1922 - 21 October 1969) American writer, poet, and artist; born Jean-Louis Lebris Kerouac | | | Because of a change in the settings of this wiki, the "E-mail this user" function will not work anymore if you do not confirm your e-mail address |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac
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| | Jack Kerouac |
| | Kerouac, the Movie (1985) (works Visions of Gerard, Dr. Sax, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, On the Road, Desolation Angels, Dharma Bums, Big Sur and others) | | | Find where Jack Kerouac is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Jack Kerouac |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449616
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| | Jack Magazine |
| | You may not distribute, copy, reprint, or use these works without written permissions from the owner. | | | All material in Jack Magazine is copyrighted by the contributing authors and artists. | | | Bridge to the Other Side: Reflections from London |
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http://www.jackmagazine.com
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| | :: Jack Kerouac Lofts :: |
| | Located in the Platte Valley, on the very same ground that Jack roamed while living and working in Denver, are the exhilarating 'beat generation' residences of Jack Kerouac Lofts. | | | The Jack Kerouac Lofts feature open floor plans, high ceilings, large windows, heated parking and individual outdoor balconies. | | | If you do not see any animation on this page, please Download Flash Player 6. |
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http://www.kerouaclofts.com
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| | Hello Web Wanderers and Kerouac Aficionados |
| | beat page (dedicated to all things Jack Kerouac) has moved to - | | | Please click on the above link (this is not automatic forwarding) and please update your bookmarks with the new website address. |
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