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Kerouac Jack
On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl. While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road, Kerouac discovered his voice and his true subject—the search for a place as an outsider in America. On the Road swings to the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns, and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. "Life is great, and few can put the zest and wonder and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac."
—Luther Nichols, San Francisco Examiner "Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation."
—Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times
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On the Road is truly an influential work. Overnight, it propelled Jack Kerouac from unknown status to "king of the beats" and then helped awaken a nation of youth who shook America out of the 1950s and ushered in the excitement of the 1960s. The novel continues to inspire and has picked up a new generation of followers in the 1980s and 1990s. On the Road follows Sal Paradise as he traverses the American continent in search of new people, ideas, and adventures. But it's the way Sal and his friends--primarily Dean Moriarty--look at the world with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild-eyed abandon that causes the rumbling in the soul of so many who read it.
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed itIN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic—rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic.
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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 in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in the post-World War II period. It was not until more than six years later, and several new drafts, that Viking published, in 1957, the novel known to us today. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Viking will publish the 1951 scroll in a standard book format. The differences between the two versions are principally ones of significant detail and altered emphasis. The scroll is slightly longer and has a heightened linguistic virtuosity and a more sexually frenetic tone. It also uses the real names of Kerouac's friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them. The transcription of the scroll was done by Howard Cunnell who, along with Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos, provides a critical introduction that explains the fascinating compositional and publication history of On the Road and anchors the text in its historical, political, and social context. Celebrating 50 Years of On the Road  | A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac's classic novel that defined a generation. On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. | | |  | Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think): John Leland, author of Hip: A History argues that On the Road still matters not for its youthful rebellion but because it is full of lessons about how to grow up. | | | | 
From the back cover of On the Road: The Original Scroll: Jack Kerouac displaying one of his later scroll manuscripts, most likely The Dharma Bums | | | 
Kerouac's map of his first hitchhiking trip, July-October 1947 (click image to see the full map) | |
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Original New York Times review of On the Road (click image to see the full review) |
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On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics)
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"On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel
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In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, 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. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
On the Road (Penguin Classics)
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Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago. Introduction by Ann Charters
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Jack Kerouac: Fantasy baseball, 'Beat' style - Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Sun, NV - Feb 10, 5199
Jack Kerouac: Fantasy baseball, 'Beat' styleAmong the teams thought up by writer Jack Kerouac for a fantasy baseball game he created, and played for most of his life, were the Boston Fords, New York Chevvies and Philadelphia Pontiacs. By Jeff Haney (contact) News item: Throughout his life Jack
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Pulitzer-winning poet comes back home to Seattle - TheNewsTribune.com
TheNewsTribune.com, WA - Feb 10, 7301
KUOW NPRPulitzer-winning poet comes back home to SeattleThe environmental writer, immortalized in Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums" as Japhy Ryder, was in Seattle for a Wednesday reading at Benaroya Hall. He took his trip to Seattle as an opportunity to visit the childhood home he left when he was 12 years Poet Gary Snyder returns to Seattle for reading
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Riverview High's bright days - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - Feb 10, 2331
Riverview High's bright daysArchitect Paul Rudolph designed Sarasota's Riverview High in 1958, (the year my mother immigrated to Canada, the year Jack Kerouac's third novel, "The Dharma Bums," went to press), so in his hometown would exist a high school that let the Florida
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The Universal Baseball Association Inc.: Jack Kerouac, Proprietor - Subway Squawkers - A Yankee/Mets fan blog
Subway Squawkers - A Yankee/Mets fan blog, NY - May 22, 2009
Subway Squawkers - A Yankee/Mets fan blogThe Universal Baseball Association Inc.: Jack Kerouac, ProprietorBut the Times two days ago wrote a story about Jack Kerouac's fantasy baseball league, in which he created three rosters of imaginary players and subjected them to a season in his mind. Back in the day of APBA and Stratomatic, you could do that pretty
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The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut - New York Times
New York Times, United States - Feb 10, 1575
New York TimesThe Dharma Bum as Sports NutBy CHARLES McGRATH Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the
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