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| | Jack Kerouac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Kerouac was "locked in the Cold War and the first Asian debacle" in "the gray, chill, militaristic silence, [...] the intellective void [...] the spiritual drabness". | | | Unlike Kerouac's later work, which established his Beat style, "The Town and the City" is heavily influenced by Kerouac's reading of Thomas Wolfe. | | | It was in New York that Kerouac met the people with whom he was to journey around the world, and the subjects of many of his novels: the so-called Beat Generation, which included people such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac
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| | The Beat Page - Jack Kerouac |
| | 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. | | | That seems almost redundant since the writer's life obviously has some influence on his or her work. | | | The main character in this story hitchhikes across the country with his friend Dean Moriarty (inspired by fellow Beat adventurer, Neal Cassady) and enjoys casual friendships, love affairs and experiences. |
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http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/kerouac.html
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| | Culture Wars Magazine - The Apocalypse of Jack Kerouac |
| | With his marriage a failure, his health crumbling, and his art so strange that a respected editor had rejected it, all that remained for him was his identity as a writer. | | | Whatever one thinks of his writing or his religious "visions" (as he called them), that Jack Kerouac was a dedicated writer is indisputable. | | | Maybe Jack really was ahead of his time, and maybe he really was a great writer, too. |
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http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html
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| | LitKicks: Jack Kerouac |
| | 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. | | | Certainly the Beat Generation was a fad, Kerouac knew, but his own writing was not. | | | It would become Kerouac's first and most conventional novel, 'The Town and the City,' which earned him respect and some recognition as a writer, although it did not make him famous. |
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http://www.litkicks.com/People/JackKerouac.html
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| | American Writers: Video Clip List |
| | Kerouac's writings classified as prose poetry; conservatism in his poetry | | | His appreciation of jazz music and art; some of Kerouac's favorite jazz musicians and painters | | | John Sampas, brother-in-law, on Kerouac's style; typed the Scroll in three weeks; wrote it on caffeine; publishing world rejected the spiritual, sexual adventure story of two young men; established editors were offended by a "working class" kid replacing them |
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http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/clips35_kerouac.asp
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| | Jack Kerouac |
| | Kerouac presented a new, spontaneous, unpolished style, the 'sound of the mind', similar to almost theatrical performance. | | | Kerouac's novel VISIONS OF CODY was published posthumously in 1972, but it was composed already in 1951-52. | | | Kerouac's search for spiritual liberation produced his best known work, the autobiographical novel ON THE ROAD (1957). |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kerouac.htm
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| | American Authors |
| | Kerouac returned to New York and lived with an old girlfriend, Edie Parker, who was studying art at Columbia. | | | Jack's own publisher found the work too "new and unusual," and doubted a book "about bums" would appeal to the public. | | | But Kerouac turned his back on the flower children he had spawned. |
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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 |
| | Carolyn Cassady, the wife of Neal and hostess to Kerouac during the writing of On the Road, remembers her houseguest and friend as a much more sensitive, disciplined writer than most of his readers imagined. | | | Like the highly trained jazz musicians he was emulating, Kerouac actually spent a good deal of time preparing for that creative eruption. | | | Hear Kerouac read from On the Road (Jazz of the Beat Generation). |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/ontheroad
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| | DHARMA beat - A Jack Kerouac website |
| | Completed in 1945 when Kerouac was 23 and signed his work "John", it exhibits a writer in the process of finding the voice that would eventually express the spirit of a generation. | | | It is also a space for your Kerouac related item, your Kerouac inspired book or poetry book, or your Kerouac inspired music. | | | Kerouac, The Word and the Way, Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester by Ben Giamo. |
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http://www.wordsareimportant.com/dharmabeat.htm
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| | Jack Kerouac's Big Sur |
| | In a desperate grasp for sanity, Jack takes her and her young son, along with his friend Dave and girlfriend, to the Big Sur cabin --just in time for Jack's delirious crisis. | | | Jack and friends drop in on Cody working at his job that night, in a garage capping tires: | | | As much as he enjoys rollicking orgies of booze and conversation, it seems to pull him down into mornings-after of despair. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/or/rainblessed/BigSur.html
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| | Books by Jack Kerouac |
| | Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance. | | | From 1956 to 1959, Jack Kerouac sent Evergreen Review editor Donald Allen poems for various projects, along with letters in which he discussed his poetry, his life, and the work of his young contemporaries. | | | Kerouac's letters offer umparalleled insight nto the life and mind of this giant of the American literary landscape. |
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http://www.citylights.com/beat/CLjk.html
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| | Critical Thinkers :: Jack Kerouac Resources |
| | Unflinching and glitterless in its depiction of Kerouac et. | | | I suppose it's appropriate that Kerouac's timeline extends to 1997, 40 years after the publication of On the Road and 28 years after his alcohol-soaked death. | | | "DHARMA beat is a newszine about Kerouac's life and writing. |
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http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/kerouac.htm
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| | Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/David Amram discusses Jack Kerouac in an exclusive interview with Jerry Jazz Musician |
| | That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. | | | Their work together blended poetry, jazz, blues, theatre and what is now considered performance art into an unforgettably intoxicating stew that became a life-changing experience for the many thousands of people who witnessed it. | | | I never knew whether Jack was reading something that he made up on the spot or if it was something of his own. |
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http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=amram.html
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| | COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-Jack Kerouac Chronology Plate |
| | ¶November 18: Kerouac marries Stella Sampas in Hyannis. | | | NOTE: This chronology is a work in progress. | | | ¶December: In New York, Kerouac is living with his mother at her Richmond Hill home. |
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http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/jkchrono.html
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| | Jack Kerouac's Lowell: A Walking Tour of Downtown. |
| | It's interesting to match Kerouac's descriptions of the mills with depiction of work in his novels. | | | Lowell poet Paul Marion, a cultural affairs director for the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, was instrumental in guiding the project through its many stages. | | | Many French Canadians came to work in mills like the Boott. |
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http://ecommunity.uml.edu/jklowell/jkdtt.html
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| | American Writers: Jack Kerouac |
| | 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. | | | 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 studied briefly at Columbia University (1940-41), then saw wartime service in the merchant marine and the navy (1942-43), from which he was discharged for psychological |
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http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/kerouac.asp
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| | Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] at Maison d'Être Beatnik Coffeehouse |
| | Jack spent the summer of 1960 at Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Big Sur, but heavy drinking caused nightmares and paranoia and delirium tremens [see "Big Sur"]. | | | he major novels of Jack Kerouac include "On The Road", "The Dharma Bums", "The Subterraneans", and "Big Sur". | | | 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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| | Jack Kerouac |
| | 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). | | | 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. |
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http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kerouac.htm
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| | Official web site of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! |
| | Great music by Evan Goodrow and The Hot Spot Jazz Trio, along with great readings by a sampling of established, and burgeoning, poets from the greater Lowell arts community. | | | This means that your chances are twice as good to win one of these famous bobbles. | | | He will be reading passages that Jack wrote inspired by jazz music and musicians. |
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http://lckorg.tripod.com
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| | On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Manuscript - SFPL.org |
| | Thirty-six feet of the original manuscript will be exhibited along with an overview of Kerouac’s life and other works, a brief history of the Beat movement and Beats in San Francisco, told through photos, books and ephemera. | | | This manuscript is on loan from the collection of James S. Irsay. | | | 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. |
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http://sfpl.org/news/ontheroad.htm
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| | Jack Kerouac - Wikiquote |
| | Jack Kerouac (12 March 1922 - 21 October 1969) American writer, poet, and artist; born Jean-Louis Lebris Kerouac | | | We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time. | | | 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 |
| | All material in Jack Magazine is copyrighted by the contributing authors and artists. | | | Interview with Omar Swartz and Jack Wittbold on Kerouac, Beat Culture, and Photography | | | You may not distribute, copy, reprint, or use these works without written permissions from the owner. |
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http://www.jackmagazine.com
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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. | | | The first sound in this section has Kerouac Singing. |
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http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/k_speaks/kerouacspeaks.html
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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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| | Jack Kerouac - Salon |
| | Reading their love letters from before I was born is an eerie experience. | | | Jack Kerouac's lost 1945 novella has been rediscovered and given new life as an e-book. | | | Filmmaker Chuck Workman on "The Source," his fawning tribute to the Beat generation. |
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http://dir.salon.com/topics/jack_kerouac
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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. | | | 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... | | | Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) wrote a spontaneous, sometimes raw prose that captured the immediacy of experience. |
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http://www.nps.gov/lowe/loweweb/Lowell_History/kerouac.htm
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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 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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| | Quotes from Kerouac |
| | That from Heaven grace descends, the ministers thereof...No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. | | | "Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. |
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http://www.tijean.freeserve.co.uk/quotes.htm
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| | David Amram - Home Page |
| | Reviews of Amram's books, "Vibrations" and "Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac" | | | Many thanks to Michael Monteleone, filmmaker and Lord Buckley Scholar, for substantial contributions to the design of this website. | | | Website design and maintenance by FMP Computer Services |
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http://www.davidamram.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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http://members.aol.com/kerouaczin/dharmabeat.html
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