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Sex, drugs, jazz, road trips, and rambling prose—this is Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The acclaimed novel, originally written on a continuous roll of paper in a three-week period, has become a ...
A doc about Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road,' directed by Ebs Burnough & featuring Michael Imperioli premieres at Tribeca. Watch an exclusive clip.
Jack Kerouac is back and on the road once again in new novel: Minister of Culture. Updated: Oct. 01, 2014, 3:00 p.m. ... Michael Heaton, The Plain Dealer; Jack Kerouac ...
Did Jack Kerouac really write On the Road in a drug-fueled three-week frenzy? Yes — and no. Whether you believe the legend or not, it's 50 years since the event, and the 120-foot scroll is on ...
Kerouac took the brightest minds of his generation and wrote them into his novels. Cohesiveness: 3.5/5 "On the Road" is split into five parts, only three consisting of road trips with Moriarty, and so ...
One of the most enduring, if not always endearing, accounts of men in motion is Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” The hipster classic turned 50 on Sept. 5, and even at that ripe age it’s still ...
With the complete text of the original 1957 novel at its heart, this edition has been curated by Penguin editors, the Kerouac estate, and Beat scholars. It includes a number of spectacular features ...
And why shouldn't we? This year, marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's seminal Beat Generation novel "On the Road," will see a veritable deluge of books by and about Kerouac ...
Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" gets the full 50th anniversary treatment next month, and both cheerleaders and hand-wringers acknowledge that it radically changed American culture—somehow or other.
For the first time, the 120-foot-long scroll manuscript for Jack Kerouac's On the Road has gone on display unrolled. The giant scroll can be seen from end to end at the University of Iowa Museum ...
Time is a key element in Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road.” “We know time,” the protagonist Dean Moriarty (based on Kerouac’s friend Neal Cassady) mutters throughout the book, an ...
Author Jack Kerouac (inset) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 100 years ago this month. Denis Tangney Jr, via Getty Images Here’s a reason to get on the road. It was 100 years ago this week ...