Ebs Burnough, the director behind a new documentary that covers Jack Kerouac's life and the impact of his 1957 novel On the ...

A 16,000-word letter by Beat Generation muse Neal Cassady that convinced friend Jack Kerouac to completely rewrite On The Road is up for auction.

Based on Kerouac's adventures in the late 1940s with his wild friend Neal Cassady, lightly fictionalized as Dean Moriarty, a.k.a. "HOLY GOOF," On the Road grabbed the zeitgeist the moment of its ...

Stern said Monday that Beat poet and Kerouac friend Allen Ginsberg sent him the letter sometime in the 1950s, hoping he could get it published by Ace Books, for which Stern was a literary agent.