Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac's (1922-1969) On the Road was published in 1957, six years after its completion. It went on to become a bestseller and is considered the quintessential statement of the 1950's literary movement known as the Beat Generation. Born in ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Penguin Classic The Portable Jack Kerouac
 From Amazon.com: Jack Kerouac produced a substantial body of writings in his mercurial career. His drug- and alcohol-inspired furious bursts on the typewriter created energetic and exciting prose, chronicling his experiences and impressions of the [... more]
CDN$21.50
Amazon CA |
Steve Turner
Steve Turner is the author of Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye, A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song, Hungry for Heaven: Rock and Roll and the Search for Redemption, Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster, and Van ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
John Morthland
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional ... [... more]
Random House |
Lisa Conrad
This book includes Donald Hall, Jack Kerouac, Robert Kelly, Bill Lee, Paul Metcalf, Anne Waldman, Tom Clark, and Bernadette Mayer. The quality of the work in this anthology varies widely, but the sheer unlikeliness of a volume of neo-beat ... [... more]
Random House |
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
very disappointing: 'King of the Beats' is halfway in between being a documentary and a movie. It contains footage of Kerouac and interviews with Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Huncke, etc. But the majority of the footage is of actors portraying the [... more]
CDN$16.98
Amazon CA |
When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School
Well Spoken: Sam Kashner is a writer of flawless virtue but noticible simplicity. He did an audacious deed by creating a book that helps merely a bit to understanding the complex beauty of the idols of our nation; the beats. Sam Kashner gave life to the [... more]
CDN$16.50
Amazon CA |
Selected Letters Of Jack Kerouac 1957 To 1969
definitive-she knew J.K. well...: Ann did interview Jack & takes part in many literary forums..."beat'.The last great living 'Beat' hipster is...L. Ferlinghetti. The last,best bio on J.K. will be Doug Brinkley's..he has full access to archives, [... more]
CDN$32.50
Amazon CA |
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And ...
A living, freewheeling account of life's ultimate beauty: This is a biography, but as the fluid phrases turn and the images flow, you are transported into the time and space inhabited by Kerouac, and his band of unruly "beats." The reproduction [... more]
CDN$26.95
Amazon CA |
Selected Letters Of Jack Kerouac 1940 To 1956
From Amazon.com: Jack Kerouac is one of America's most influential literary figures. On the Road begot the Beat Generation, which ushered in the hippie movement, then free love, then drugs and so on and so on. Yet the real Kerouac bore little resemblance [... more]
CDN$23.50
Amazon CA |
Portable Jack Kerouac
From Amazon.com: Jack Kerouac produced a substantial body of writings in his mercurial career. His drug- and alcohol-inspired furious bursts on the typewriter created energetic and exciting prose, chronicling his experiences and impressions of the [... more]
CDN$25.50
Amazon CA |
What Happened To Kerouac?: An
THIS IS THE ONE - BY FAR, THE BEST KEROUAC DOCUMENTARY: A near-perfect documentary on Kerouac, and the list of interviewees is...well, they are all here: Herbert Huncke, William S Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1st wife [... more]
CDN$26.99
Amazon CA |
