Douglas Brinkley, editor of the Library of America edition of Jack Kerouac's Road novels.
He's also the author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America.
They start with "Spit at Stars, " inspired by a moment in a Jack Kerouac novel.
Brinkley says the first thing to understand about Jack Kerouac is that he was an American Catholic writer.
But in the 1964 interview recorded by the North Port Public Library, Jack Kerouac voiced disdain for the so-called beatniks.
Based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, it stars Garrett Hedlund as the free-spirited Dean Moriarty and Kristen Stewart as his wife, Marylou.
And, given my age at the time, and the ideological company that this second wave kept, I simultaneously found Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
In one sense, McCandless was no different than Thoreau at Walden Pond, or Huck Finn in his raft on the Mississippi, or Jack Kerouac on the road.
The former child star plays beat poet Allen Ginsberg as a young student in the throes of literary revolution, along with his contemporaries Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Jack Kerouac ignited a whole generation of artists and intellectuals.
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Like most of his generation, he was into that kind of reading, along with Jack Kerouac, Marx, Marshall McLuhan, Jung, and pretty well anything out of the French left.
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Jack Kerouac's "On The Road, " published September 5th, 1957.
So even though we drive more than we fly, with apologies to Jack Kerouac and George Clooney, it seems that there is basis for the claim that on the road is more dangerous than up in the air.
There, he meets Lucien Carr (played by Dane DeHaan), who introduces him to William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and together, their dreams of creating a "New Vision" of literature form the nascent beginnings of the Beat Generation.
Mr. JACK KEROUAC (Author, "On The Road"): Out we jumped in the warm, mad night, hearing a wild tenorman's bawling horns across the way going, ee-yah(ph), ee-ya, and hands clapping to the beat and folks yelling go, go, go.
Jack Kerouac sat on the side with a jug of wine cracking jokes and rapping and being totally entertaining, and a mix of people from the bohemians to some of my professors from UC-Berkeley, the Chinese department, were all there together.
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The 23-year-old actor plays a curly-haired, teenage Ginsberg as he goes to New York's Columbia university in 1943 and meets others who would give their name to the so-called Beat generation - Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Lucien Carr, who would later become an editor for United Press International.
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