These classic Kerouac meditations, Zen koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.[...]

"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 [...]

About the Author



Chuck Rosenthal is the author of four novels (Loop's Progress, Experiments With Life & Deaf, Loop's End and Elena of the Stars). His fiction has appeared in many journals including The Santa Monica Review and The Denver Quarterly. He is a full professor [...]

Turn your bedtime story into a fantastic roadtrip across America With Sal Paradise at the helm, visit the most epic places in the U.S., and meet a cast of unforgettable characters. Published in 1957, this is the cornerstone novel of the Beat Generation. KinderGuides(r) introduces the greatest liter[...]

"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 [...]

Fueled by coffee and pea soup, Jack Kerouac speed-typed "On the Road" in just three weeks in April 1951. He'd been traveling America for the past ten years and now, at last, the furious energy of his experiences flowed through his fingertips in a mad rush, pealing forth on a makeshift scroll that he[...]

Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku is a reading of the haiku collected in Jack Kerouac's Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich, (2003), one of the two largest collections of English haiku. "Above all," Kerouac wrote in his journal, "a Haiku must be very simple and free [...]

With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that ev[...]

"Rebellion, self-destructive behavior, alcoholism-all the Kerouac hallmarks are in evidence..."-Publishers Weekly "A striking success."-Philadelphia Inquirer "There will never be a moment like this one," says poet and fellow Beat writer Robert Creeley, in his introduction to this literary event: the[...]