Kerouac, Jack
Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERDuval, Jean-Francois.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sun Dog Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUVSummary: This incisive and entertaining portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America. In 1953 Ferlinghetti opened City Lights Bookstore, which quickly evolved into an iconic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FERBall, Gordon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BALKerouac, Jack
Summary: Two young men search for Truth the Zen way in California and Washington State.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERSummary: The first film to mix horror and comedy, tells of a beatnik coffeehouse busboy who finds acceptance as a sculptor until the terrible truth behind his work is revealed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BUCKerouac, Jack
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERKerouac, Jack
Summary: The author reads his poetry. Includes previously unpublished "Washington D.C. Blues" and some tracks of Jack singing the swing thing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERContents: October in the railroad earth / Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen -- Gears / Gil Melle -- The Beat generation / Mamie Van Doren -- My baby / Ken Nordine -- Saturn / Sun ra and his Arkestra -- Jackie / Lambert Hendricks & Ross -- Atomic cocktail / Slim Gaillard -- Salt peanuts / Dizzy Gillespie -- Discovery of America / Al "Jazzbo" Collins -- Blue monk / Theonious Monk -- Dog / Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Red Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BEASummary: Interweaves footage from Burroughs' public readings, experimental films in which he appears, his paintings, and an extensive interview with German writer Jürgen Ploog.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Edge 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILKerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEROUAC, JACK KERSinclair, Iain
Summary: "The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SINCLAIR, IAIN SINSummary: In this wide-ranging anthology, Beat scholar Ann Charters brings together more than seventy-five essays, reviews, memoirs, poems, and sketches that evoke the credos and the controversies surrounding the Beat generation writers of the 1950s. Charters includes discussions of all the major Beat figures-Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 BEAKerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERKerouac, 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