Big Sur

Call number: SAC - PS3521 .E735 B5 1992

Desolation Angels - Publisher's Marketing: "The classic novel from the definitive voice of the Beat Generation, Desolation Angels is the story of Kerouac's life just before the publication of On the Road--as told through his fictional self--Jack Duluoz. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything. It is life as he sees it."

Call number: SAC - PS3521 .E735 D46 1995

The Dharma Bums - Publisher's Marketing: "Two ebullient young men search for truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State."

Call number: SAC - PS3521.E735 D48 2006

On the Road - Publisher's Marketing: "In its time, Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation. Now, this modern classic goes racing toward the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy, and autobiographical passion, swinging to the solemn rhythms of 1950's underground America."

Call number: PAL - PS3521.E735 O5 1976

Call number: SAC - PS3521.E735 O5 1991

Pic: A Novel

Call number: PAL - PS3521.E735 P5 1971

Road Novels 1957-1960 - Publisher's Marketing: "The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" instantly defined a generation upon its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a "New York Times" reviewer, "the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'" Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as "spontaneous bop prosody," Kerouac's novel remains electrifying in its thirst for experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity. In his portrayal of the fervent relationship between the writer Sal Paradise and his outrageous, exasperating, and inimitable friend Dean Moriarty, Kerouac created one of the great friendships in American literature; and his rendering of the cities and highways and wildernesses that his characters restlessly explore are a hallucinatory travelogue of a nation he both mourns and celebrates. Now, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Kerouac's landmark novel, The Library of America collects On the Road together with four other autobiographical "road books" published in the late 1950s and early 1960s. "The Dharma Bums" (1958), at once an exploration of Buddhist spirituality and an account of the Bay Area poetry scene, is notable for its thinly veiled portraits of Kerouac's acquaintances, including Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Kenneth Rexroth. "The Subterraneans" (1958) recounts a love affair set amid the bars and bohemian haunts of San Francisco. "Tristessa" (1960) is a melancholy novella describing a relationship with a prostitute in Mexico City. Lonesome Traveler (1960) collects travel essays that evoke journeys in Mexico andEurope, and concludes with an elegiac lament for the lost world of the American hobo. Also included in "Road Novels" are selections from Kerouac's journal, which provide a fascinating perspective on his early impressions of material eventually incorporated into "On the Road.""

Call number: OPC - PS3521.E735 A6 2007

Call number: PAL - PS3521.E735 A6 2007

The Subterraneans - Publisher's Marketing: "The Subterraneans is an autobiographical Beat love story, a hipster romance. It is a very simple book. Boy meets girl. Then, right away, problems."

Call number: PAL - PS3521.E735 S8 1971

Call number: SAC - PS3521 .E735 S73 1981

The Town and the City - Publisher's Marketing: "In this compelling first novel, Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life."

Call number: OPC - PS3521.E735 T6 1978

Call number: PAL - PS3521.E735 T6 1978

Call number: SAC - PS3521.E735 T6 1978

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954 - Publisher's Marketing: "Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In "Windblown World," distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouacas life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre."

Call number: SAC - PS3521 .E735 Z478 2006

Angelheaded Hipster: A Life of Jack Kerouac by Steve turner

Call number: SAC - PS3521.E735 Z85 1996

Jack Kerouac by Warren French

Call number: SAC - PS3521.E735 Z6328 1986

Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats: A Portrait by Barry Miles - Publisher's Marketing: "More than forty years after the publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac is more read and revered than ever, especially by a new young generation of seekers who weren't even born until after his death in 1969. Why this is so is the subject of Barry Miles's fresh and intimate exploration of the complex man and extraordinary writer who peopled his fiction with such vivid and engaging characters that the real Jack Kerouac got lost amid all the myths and misperceptions. Drawing on his years of friendship and many conversations with Ginsberg and Burroughs, Miles shows Kerouac as a man full of contradictions, surprisingly conventional in his beliefs as much as he longed to rebel, rarely at peace with himself, though profoundly drawn to the serenity he glimpsed in Zen Buddhism. Far from being a free spirit, Kerouac was never able to break away from his domineering mother, and he spent his life confused and anguished by the fact that he was attracted sexually to men as well as to women. And yet without Kerouac, the Beats may never have gained the notoriety and influence that allowed them to so profoundly shake up American culture in the 1960s and beyond."

Call number: PAL - PS3521.E735 Z778 1998

Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters

Call number: PAL - PS3521.E735 Z6 1973

Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac by David Amram - Publisher's Marketing: "From painters lofts and bohemian haunts in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s to funky clubs and Bowery bars like the Five Spot, jazz musician David Amram retraces in this engaging memoir the creative paths he followed through restless days and long, exhilarating nights with his collaborator and friend Jack Kerouac. With candor and humor, Amram re-creates the moments that shaped a mutually stimulating relationshiplike the jazz-poetry reading, the first ever in New York, he performed with Kerouac, whose On the Road had recently made him an overnight literary success; or like the 1959 film, Pull My Daisy, they hilariously made with fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and Larry Rivers. Amram illuminates the private side of Kerouac, too, his extraordinary intellect and his ardent pursuit of music and literature long after the critics had turned on him and many of his old friends had abandoned him. Among the last of a generation that altered the style and substance of the arts in its time, Amram also celebrates in this at once wise and affecting book the renascence of interest in Kerouacs work three decades after his death. For the beat indeed goes on. And so does the collaboration."

Call number: OPC - PS3521.E735 Z55 2002

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture edited by Holly George-Warren - Publisher's Marketing: "It's been nearly fifty years since Jack Kerouac took to the road, but Beat culture continues to be a popular and influential force in today's writing, music, and art. With more than 75 contributors, this celebratory potpourri of words, illustrations, and photography contains original and previously published essays by Richard Miller, Ann Douglas, Johnny Depp, Michael McClure, Hettie Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Joyce Johnson, Richard Hell, and others. It includes rare pieces from the Rolling Stone archives by William Burroughs, Lester Bangs, and Robert Palmer as well as intimate photographs by Robert Frank, Annie Leibovitz, and rarely seen photos taken by the Beats themselves. A rich tapestry of voices and a visual treat, this treasury of Beat lore and literature is a true collector's item whose entertainment value will go on...and on."

Call number: OPC - PS228.B6 R65 1999

Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) by John Leland - Publisher's Marketing: "In "Why Kerouac Matters," John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it still matters because at its core it is a book that is full of lessons about how to grow up. Lelandas focus is on Sal Paradise, the Kerouac alter ego, who has always been overshadowed by his fictional running buddy Dean Moriarty. Leland examines the lessons that Paradise absorbs and dispenses on his novelistic journey to manhood, and how those lessonsa about work and money, love and sex, art and holinessastill reverberate today. He shows how "On the Road" is a primer for male friendship and the cultivation of traditional family values, and contends that the stereotype of the two wild and crazy guys obscures the novelas core themes of the search for atonement, redemption, and divine revelation. "Why Kerouac Matters" offers a new take on Kerouacas famous novel, overturning many misconceptions about it and making clear the themes Kerouac was trying to impart."

Call number: OPC - PS3521.E735 O5347 2007