Jack Kerouac. Da Capo, $26.50 (224p) ISBN 978-0-306-82125-7
Unpublished in North America for nearly 70 years, Kerouac’s first novel, written when he was 21, offers a tantalizing glimpse of the themes and characters that were to become his obsessions. During WWII, Wesley Martin, an itinerant merchant seaman...
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Jack Kerouac, Author Viking Books $32.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-84877-5
A fascination with Buddhism percolates through many of Kerouac's writings from the 1950s, especially The Dharma Bums, but even those who have read and reread the author may be astonished at the passion for Buddhism evinced in this extraordinary...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Douglas G. Brinkley, Editor . Viking $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-03341-6
Much of Kerouac's reputation rests on his first two novels, and these selections from a series of spiral notebooks into which the fledgling author constantly poured story ideas and private thoughts offer an intimate perspective on those novels
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Robert Creeley, Introduction by . City Lights $17.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-87286-380-4
This new edition of the primary beat's private dream diaries presents the whole of Kerouac's original manuscript, including some 200-odd dreams not published in the initial selection (1961). More or less liberated from the requirements of...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Robert Creeley, Introduction by Penguin Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-058700-5
The form of these eight long, previously unpublished poems written between 1954 and 1961, is, Kerouac writes, ``limited by the small page of the breastpocket notebook in which they were written.'' Each poem is actually a series of ``blues choruses,''
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Jack Kerouac, edited by Todd Tietchen, read by Liev Schreiber and Luke Daniels. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4805-8391-7
This book includes an unfinished novel by iconic Beat writer Kerouac, published here for the first time, plus a detailed overview its development, and letters from Kerouac's father. Actor Schreiber narrates only the incomplete novel, but he does...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Ed Adler, Text by (Art/Photo Books) . Thunder's Mouth $26.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-56025-621-2
By starting right in with reproductions of the paintings and sketches that Kerouac began making in the late 1950s, a few years after the publication of On the Road
, this book comes closer to his animus than the reams of posthumous text produced on...
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Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford, Viking, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-670-02194-9
At times loving, at others blistering, sarcastic, often uncomfortably self-lacerating and intimate, these 200 letters, collected in a heroic editorial effort by Ginsberg biographer Morgan and independent editor Stanford, cover the years 1944–1963,...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, William S. Burroughs, Author, Ray Porter, Read by , read by Ray Porter. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-4912-9
Distinctly different from their later works, Burroughs and Kerouac's collaborative 1945 novel (unpublished until 2008) reimagines their experience when one of their friends killed his lover. The narrative switches back and forth between authors
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Michael McClure, Preface by, Ann Charters, Preface by Grey Fox Press $10 (89p) ISBN 978-0-912516-97-4
``Never before has inconsequentiality been raised to such a peak that it becomes a breakthrough,'' poet McClure writes in one of this volume's two prefaces. Culled from five notebooks, the writing presented here--one continuous prose poem--spans...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Donald Allen, Editor, Robert Creeley, Preface by Grey Fox Press $14.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-912516-22-6
Kerouac was a literary pilgrim in the ``careful . . . self-conscious'' 1950s, notes Creeley; this miscellany of some 30 magazine contributions (from Playboy , Escapade and other publications) is a good complement to his better-known work such as On...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Allen Ginsberg, Introduction by City Lights Books $13.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-87286-269-2
`` `Develop a pure / lucid mind' '' instructs Kerouac in ``Gatha,'' a poem in this miscellany of what Ginsberg ( Howl ) calls ``notebook jottings and little magazine items'' spanning 1954-1965. The poem's lines and title, referring to Zoroastrianism,
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Ann Charters, Editor Viking Books $27.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-670-84957-4
Much as Viking's Portable William Faulkner rekindled interest in Faulkner because his editor, Malcolm Cowley, had the brainstorm of pulling together a map of Faulkner's epic Yoknapatawpha County series of novels and stories in order to give the work
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Jack Kerouac, Author, George Condo, Introduction by . Penguin $18 (413p) ISBN 978-0-14-200215-5
Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed from notebooks Kerouac kept in his pocket between 1952 and 1954 turns out to rank with his most interesting...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Robert A. F. Thurman, Introduction by Viking Books $24.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-670-01957-1
Kerouac, Jack. Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha. Viking. Sept. 2008. 146p. REL~Though raised a devout Catholic, Kerouac became entranced by Buddhism after discovering Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible in a public library. This offers for the first time
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Ann Douglas, Introduction by Viking Books $24.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-670-01993-9
Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition. Viking. 2008. 187p. F~Kerouac followed up the 1957 smash On the Road with this novel. Though not as successful as Road, Bums introduced Buddhism and its ideas to the Beats, many of whom began
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Joshua Kupetz, Introduction by, George Mouratidis, Introduction by Viking Books $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-06355-0
In introducing the fabled first draft of Kerouac's autobiographical novel-written on a single giant roll of paper, without breaks in the text, in an amphetamine-fueled marathon-editor Howard Cunnell refers to Allen Ginsberg's claim that ""the...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Joyce Johnson, Author Viking Books $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-89040-8
In a hip, literate correspondence marked by high diction and '50s slang, 21-year-old Johnson (born Glassman) and 35-year-old Kerouac chart the flowering of the Beats and their complicated love affair. An initial matchmaking move by Allen Ginsberg...
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Paul Marion, Editor Viking Books $24.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-670-88822-1
""I am part of the American temper, the American temperament, the American tempo,"" writes a teenage Kerouac in a prophetic 1941 prose fragment, one of the 60 such pieces in this collection of Kerouac's juvenilia. These fugitive pieces, previously...
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Edited by Glenn O'Brien. The Library of America (Penguin, dist.), $27.95 (484p) ISBN 978-1598532562
Former Rolling Stone editor O'Brien (How To Be A Man) gathers selections from those associated with the Beats in an attempt to shed light on the "original hipsters." Del Close's "Dictionary of Hip Words and Phrases" offers the observation that "beatn
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Ann Charters, Editor, Jack Kerouac, Author Penguin Books $18 (656p) ISBN 978-0-14-023444-2
Commencing during his student years at Columbia and leaving off just prior to the publication of On the Road, these letters document Kerouac's apprentice years as an aspiring young writer. (Mar.)
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Ann Charters, Editor, Jack Kerouac, Author, Ann Charters, Introduction by Viking Books $34.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-670-86190-3
The peripatetic urgency, Buddhist catchphrases and casual prose of On the Road (1957) and Dharma Bums (1958) made Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) the star of the Beat generation. Kerouac's ""craft of spontaneous prose"" (in Charters's words) let him use...
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Henry James, Jr., Author, Jack Kerouac, Author, Philip Horne, Editor Viking Books $35 (688p) ISBN 978-0-670-88563-3
By his subtitle, Horne (Henry James and Revision) explicitly rejects Leon Edel's contention in his four-volume (1974-1984) selection of James's letters that letters ""offer only fragments of a life,"" since the inner life is seldom exposed overtly...
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Jack Kerouac. Rare Bird, $28 (90p) ISBN 978-1-64428-291-5
This slight compendium collects the Beat poet’s correspondence with Lois Sorrells, with whom Kerouac shared a “rocky” romantic entanglement in the late 1950s and early ’60s, and the man she eventually married, “carpenter-painter” Jacques Beckwith....
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