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Kerouac, Jack

Summary: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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Kerouac, Jack

Summary: "In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006

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Kerouac, Jack

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KER

Kerouac, Jack

Contents: Kerouac (performed by Morphine) -- Bowery blues (Lydia Lunch) -- My gang (Michael Stipe) -- Dream: "Us kids swim off a gray pier..." (Steven Tyler) -- Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode to Jack (Hunter S. Thompson) -- Skid Row wine (Maggie Estep & The Spitters) -- America's new trinity of love: Dean, Brando, Presley (Richard Lewis) -- Dream: "On a sunny afternoon ..." (Lawrence Ferlinghetti &...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1997

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KER

Kerouac, Jack

Summary: In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as neverbefore the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success a journey with deep roots inthe language and culture of Kerouac's French Canadian childhood. Edited and published...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 KER

Kerouac, Jack

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEROUAC, JACK KER

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