Neal Cassady

Author : Graham Vickers
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857121370

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Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero by Graham Vickers Pdf

Neal Cassady achieved mythical status when Jack Kerouac turned him into Dean Moriarty, the hero of On The Road. In this major biography David Sandison and Graham Vickers trace the life of the wild man from Denver who galvanised Kerouac and the Beat Generation not by artistic endeavour but by his extravagant life-affirming behaviour and epic feats of cross-country driving. Dead before his forty-second birthday, Cassady was surrounded by legends and tall stories quite literally from birth. This superbly-researched biography at last strips away the mythology to reveal truths so weird and improbable that you wonder why embellishment was ever thought necessary in the first place.

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101177334

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Collected Letters, 1944-1967 by Neal Cassady Pdf

“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassady’s life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.

Author : Carolyn Cassady
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Neal Cassady
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1971-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872860051

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The First Third by Neal Cassady Pdf

Autobiographical writing by the "hero" of Jack Kerouac's On the road.

Author : David Sandison,Graham Vickers
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781569762332

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Neal Cassady by David Sandison,Graham Vickers Pdf

This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His naturalistic, conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and uncredited from Cassady's letters for significant episodes in "On the Road." Drawing on a wealth of new research and with full cooperation from central figures in his life--including Carolyn Cassady and Ken Kesey--this account captures Cassady's unique blend of inspired lunacy and deep spirituality.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250321701

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Pdf

"Tom Wolfe's seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, and his band of Merry Pranksters"--

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913606333

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The Joan Anderson Letter by Neal Cassady Pdf

A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac.Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired 'On theRoad' along with his new literary style; referring to it as 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw'. The energy ofCassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15,000 word missive; bringinggloriously to life the personality of one of the most high profile figures in literary, and Beat movement, history.This incredibly illusive artefact, which describes in explicit detail his relationship with Joan Anderson ('aperfect beauty of loveliness that I forgot everything else'), had been missing for 60 years when it was discovered in an attic in Oakland, USA, in 2014. Legal machinations over its ownership ensued and it has not been published in its entirety...until now.This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar ProfessorA. Robert Lee. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a raresepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady.

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002280951

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Grace Beats Karma by Neal Cassady Pdf

Letters written by Cassidy to his family and godfather while serving a sentence for selling marijuana.

Author : Allen Ginsberg,Neal Cassady
Publisher : Berkeley, Calif. : Creative Arts Book Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000603889

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As Ever by Allen Ginsberg,Neal Cassady Pdf

Author : Ken Babbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989446298

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Cronies by Ken Babbs Pdf

It all began at a cocktail party for the Stanford writing class of 1958. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs became cronies and embarked on a rollicking, rambunctious adventure that lasted almost half a century. This burlesque is their tale. They are the Merry Band of Pranksters. From their early days in La Honda, to their cross-country trip with Neal Cassady at the wheel of the psychedelic-painted bus Further, and back for the Acid Tests on the West Coast with the house band later to be known as the Grateful Dead, this is their real story. The large cast of characters, in addition to the Pranksters, Cassady, and the Dead, include the Hell's Angels, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Larry McMurtry, Wendell Berry, and a pickup-length sturgeon. We're along for the ride on the famous bus trip to Manhattan and the subsequent visit with Leary at Millbrook. Whether it's a Hell's Angels party at Kesey's house, the Berkeley Vietnam anti-war rally, Kesey's pot bust, the six months on the lam in Mexico, or further adventures with Garcia and the Dead, Cronies is a bullet train of a book, fast-paced and rich with action. With the ultimate move to Oregon and many of the Pranksters following close behind, Babbs and Kesey enjoyed a magical friendship and collaborations until Kesey passed away in 2001. Irreverent, unencumbered by social norms, yet literary and poetic, this is a view of the sixties and beyond from someone who was there and remembers it. Kind of...

Author : Gerald Nicosia,Anne Marie Santos
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781573449557

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One and Only by Gerald Nicosia,Anne Marie Santos Pdf

Discusses how Lu Anne Henderson fostered the friendship between the writer Jack Kerouac and her husband Neal Cassady, and became one of the inspirations for Kerouac's most famous work, "On the Road."

Author : Gregory Stephenson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809386475

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The Daybreak Boys by Gregory Stephenson Pdf

In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. He travels through Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend,following Kerouac’s quests for identity, community, and spiritual knowledge. He examines Allen Ginsberg’s use of transcendence in “Howl,” discovers the Gnostic vision in William S. Burroughs’s fiction, and studies the mythic, visionary power of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry. Stephenson also provides detailed examinations of the writing of lesser-known Beat authors: John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Richard Fariña, and Michael McClure. He explores the myth and the mystery of the literary legend of Neal Cassady. The book concludes with a look at the common traits of the Beat writers—their use of primitivism, shamanism, myth and magic, spontaneity, and improvisation, all of which led them to a new idiom of consciousness and to the expansion of the parameters of American literature.

Author : Hank Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126971691

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The Dead Book by Hank Harrison Pdf

The author writes, in his "Forewarned", "The Grateful Dead is a family, a large, amorphous patriarchy. It can be considered as large as all sentient souls or as small as an omega-minus particle. The Grateful Dead is an esoteric secret brotherhood, fortuitously gathered, and an exoteric rock and roll band that plays loud music and sounds different at different times in front of vast audiences of 'wild, creaming, drug-crazed dropouts in their mid-twenties.' "

Author : Tom Christopher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Beats (Persons)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110210262

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Neal Cassady: 1941-1946 by Tom Christopher Pdf

Author : Richard Peabody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040578596

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A Different Beat by Richard Peabody Pdf

An anthology of works by 27 women writers of the beat generation.