Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Anthony Edwards, and Radha Mitchell
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous[...]

In this compelling first novel, Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life.
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"What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow."

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hed[...]

In the spring of 1943, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it "The Sea Is My Brother." Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early li[...]

Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing from "Mexico City Blues" to "The Dharma Bums." Published for the first time in book form, "Wake Up" [...]

A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist--from the award-winning author of "Minor Characters"
In "The Voice is All," Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, "Door Wide Open," about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show [...]

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become "On the Road" as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street [...]

Satori in Paris and Pic, two of Jack Kerouac's last novels, showcase the remarkable range and versatility of his mature talent. Satori in Paris is a rollicking autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, and lands the author in his familiar milieu of seedy bars and all-n[...]

Jack Kerouac's musings on the creative process are collected together for the first time in this exquisite book. Inthe 1950s Allen Ginsberg asked Kerouac to formally describe his "spontaneous prose" method, resulting in a list of maxims called Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Kerouac entertain[...]

Reissue. October 21st 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's death. Jack remains the most famous and culturally enduring writer of the Beat Generation. His work - and the hedonism and heartbreak of the life that inspired it - continues to thrill and fascinate a huge global readership. Thi[...]

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