Douglas Brinkley, editor of the Library of America edition of Jack Kerouac's Road novels.
In the novel, Kerouac lifted passages from his journals from five cross-country trips beginning in 1947.
He's also the author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America.
For bigger kicks, Kerouac would have enjoyed Frenchmen Street, steps east from the French Quarter.
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.
The very term beat or for Beatitude of Christ kind of came to Kerouac at a Catholic church.
Now, nearly 50 years after that novel's release, a new documentary brings Kerouac's words to the big screen.
On The Road, about a spontaneous road trip, was and still remains Kerouac's most influential and famous book.
But in the 1964 interview recorded by the North Port Public Library, Jack Kerouac voiced disdain for the so-called beatniks.
But McCandless went deeper and darker than any of those American icons, and perhaps he was mad, in the Kerouac sense.
Mr. ALLEN GINSBERG (Poet): When I went to Kerouac's house once, and I'd been revising my poem, and he said, stop revising.
Mr. KEROUAC: Do you know, I never liked the beatniks, don't you?
In amongst a forest of redwoods, it overlooks the pristine wilderness of the central coast that so famously inspired Kerouac, Miller and Steinbeck.
Based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, it stars Garrett Hedlund as the free-spirited Dean Moriarty and Kristen Stewart as his wife, Marylou.
The manuscript, which was was discovered in the writer's archive by his brother-in-law, came as a surprise to Kerouac experts, Ms Ward says.
Kerouac lived just under a mile away at 454 West 20th Street in the 1950s, banging out the first draft of On the Road in three weeks.
But it seems like most of rock-and-roll and even hip-hop have built on the Kerouac-cum-James Dean-via-Nirvana mythos of the troubled teen struggling against the world.
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.
Kerouac, who had struggled with fame and alcohol addiction since the success of On the Road, ventured to Big Sur seeking solitude and a place to dry out.
Curt Worden, who directed One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, uses various artists, including Tom Waits, John Ventimiglia and Patti Smith, to voice Kerouac's prose.
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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In 1985 at his Lower East Side apartment, Ginsberg told me when he met Kerouac in the 1940s, Kerouac was already experimenting, like a jazz musician, with spontaneous improvisation.
Although the novel received positive reviews, sales of the book were not impressive and it took Kerouac a further six years before he was to get his next book printed.
Jack Kerouac's "On The Road, " published September 5th, 1957.
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