Kerouac And Friends

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1560254807

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Kerouac and Friends by Anonim Pdf

Renowned photographer Fred McDarrah captures the Beats in the midst of their rise to acclaim. His 100 shots of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and others partying in cheap downtown Manhattan apartments, socializing at Grove Press book parties, and hunching over their typewriters are joined by writings from a diverse and illuminating raft of sources. Jack Kerouac contributes a list of activities necessary for writing success ("1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy"), Diana Trilling shares her thoughts on her fears of and for husband's former student, Allen Ginsberg, and Mad magazine sends up the young men and women who took up the beat lifestyle Kerouac and friends made famous. Kerouac and Friends is a fresh and surprising look at the young men and women who would come to define the last major epoch in American literature. "A lot of great stuff here about those Abominable Snowmen of modern poetry, the Beats."—Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Not merely a marvelous nostalgia trip. It also illuminates an important period in American culture. First rate!"—Michael Harrington

Author : Gae Polisner
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250312259

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Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me by Gae Polisner Pdf

"Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is an absolutely real, raw and emotional read, and it's a book that touched my heart with every page." - Katie McGarry, critically acclaimed author of Only a Breath Apart Fifteen-year-old JL Markham’s life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever best friend Aubrey about their families and boys. Together, they were unstoppable. But they aren’t the friends they once were. With JL’s father gone on long term business, and her mother struggling with her mental illness, JL takes solace in the tropical butterflies she raises, and in her new, older boyfriend, Max Gordon. Max may be rough on the outside, but he has the soul of a poet (something Aubrey will never understand). Only, Max is about to graduate, and he's going to hit the road - with or without JL. JL can't bear being left behind again. But what if devoting herself to Max not only means betraying her parents, but permanently losing the love of her best friend? What becomes of loyalty, when no one is loyal to you? Gae Polisner’s Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is a story about the fragility of female friendship, of falling in love and wondering if you are ready for more, and of the glimmers of hope we find by taking stock in ourselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015028758970

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Kerouac at the "Wild Boar" & Other Skirmishes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101437131

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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg by Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg Pdf

The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement Writers and cultural icons 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. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before. Commencing in 1944 while Ginsberg was a student at Columbia University and continuing until shortly before Kerouac's death in 1969, the two hundred letters included in this book provide astonishing insight into their lives and their writing. While not always in agreement, Ginsberg and Kerouac inspired each other spiritually and creatively, and their letters became a vital workshop for their art. Vivid, engaging, and enthralling, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters provides an unparalleled portrait of the two men who led the cultural and artistic movement that defined their generation.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735254251

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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phone calls, mail, and reporters in the wake of the success of On the Road, Jack Kerouac needed peace, quiet, sobriety, and solitude, so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. Amid the wild beauty of the landscape, Kerouac struggled to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact on his life. The result is Big Sur, a moving, gritty, and uninhibited autobiographical account of a man struggling with inner demons, blessed by talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction—a path lined with bourbon, Manhattans, and scotch. Searingly honest and raw, Big Sur shows a man coming to terms with fame, himself, and the world. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Carolyn Cassady
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468305715

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Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady Pdf

This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Barry Gifford,Lawrence Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101580462

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Jack's Book by Barry Gifford,Lawrence Lee Pdf

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION, AMERICAN--HISTORY AND CRITICISM
ISBN : 9780791075814

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Jack Kerouac's On the Road by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872863808

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Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac Pdf

"In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about." Excerpt: WALKING THROUGH SLUM SUBURBS of Mexico City I'm stopped by smiling threesome of cats who've disengaged themselves from the general fairly crowded evening street of brown lights, coke stands, tortillas-Unmistakably going to steal my bag-I struggled a little, gave up-Begin communicating with them my distress and in fact do so well they end up just stealing parts of my stuff…. We walk off leaving the bag with someone-arm in arm like a gang to the downtown lights of Letran, across a field- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Roa, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Scattered Poems, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes, and Scripture of the Golden Eternity.

Author : Ellis Amburn
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466821316

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Subterranean Kerouac by Ellis Amburn Pdf

Drawing upon original interviews and his own relationship with Kerouac, Ellis Amburn reveals an inner man who has not appeared in any previous biography-a man torn by his conflicting desires and beliefs. Subterranean Kerouac has been singled out as one of the most significant biographies to appear in years, and it shows how Kerouac struggled throughout his life with poverty, alcoholism, and his doubts about his own lifestyle of substance abuse, indolence, and promiscuity.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0142002151

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Book of Sketches by Jack Kerouac Pdf

In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415109896

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Jack's Book, Jack Kerouac in the Lives and Words of His Friends by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802195715

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Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac Pdf

Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, On The Road. Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox—two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground—The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America's field of vision.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781504033978

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Old Angel Midnight by Jack Kerouac Pdf

A sensory narrative poem capturing the rhythms of the universe and secrets of the subconscious with stunning linguistic dexterity from the author of On the Road A spontaneous writing project in the form of an extended prose poem, this sonorous and spiritually playful book is one of Jack Kerouac’s most boldly experimental works. Collected from five notebooks dating from 1956 to 1959—a time in which Kerouac was immersed in Buddhist theory—Old Angel Midnight is comprised of sixty-seven short sections unified by an unwavering dedication to sounds, the subconscious, and verbal ingenuity. Friday Afternoon in the Universe, in all directions in & out you got your men women dogs children horses pones tics perts parts pans pools palls pails parturiences and petty Thieveries that turn into heavenly Buddha. Thus begins Kerouac’s Joycean language dance. From birdsong to dharmic verse, street jargon to French slang, the resonances of the universe come blaring in though the windows, unfurling their meaning as the mind lets go and listens.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Beats (Persons)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003853780

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Pic by Jack Kerouac Pdf