NEW YORK CITY, WEST END — When Jack Kerouac landed in the Upper West Side of New York to attend Columbia University in 1940, his world cracked open. “Here’s this kid from Lowell, he didn’t ...

First edition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road ... The novel’s appearance in print was hailed by Gilbert Millstein in the New York Times as “a historic occasion…the most beautifully executed ...

Author Jack Kerouac (inset) was born in Lowell ... “The Town and the City,” captured his observances of life in Lowell and New York City. It brings artists such as Tanya Donelly and Robyn ...

There are few greater things in life than listening to a recording of Jack Kerouac speak ... a just under 7-minute speech Kerouac gave at New York's Hunter College Playhouse (sponsored by Brandeis ...

It is time to cut Jack loose from the public’s ... The critic Ann Douglas, reviewing Kerouac’s Selected Letters in The New York Times Book Review, observed that “Kerouac’s work represents ...

The literary and personal archives of Jack Kerouac, the seminal figure in the Beat Generation of the 1950s and a San Francisco icon, have been sold to the New York Public Library. The decision ...

Jack Kerouac’s 1952 pencil sketch (seen below ... (one of 250 objects featured in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures) Kerouac rolled this sheet of paper ...

Looking for a ride to Monsey, N.Y., or to make a quick trip to Lansing, Mich., over Thanksgiving break? Hitching a ride on the streets of New York is illegal, so today’s hitchhikers are sticking out ...

When I arrive in New York City I look in a disposal trash basket ... a matte-finish gelatin silver photo of Jack Kerouac originally taken by Allen Ginsberg in 1953. The photo includes a lengthy ...