Big Sur

Literature & Fiction

Author: Jack Kerouac

“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 emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk,….Read More

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The Dharma Bums

Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth.… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, American Literature

The Subterraneans

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Screwjack

Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Fiction, Short Stories

Lonesome Traveler

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a… Continue Reading Posted in: Beat Generation, Classic Literature & Fiction, Description And Travel, Medieval Thought Philosophy, Poetry

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More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac sat down in New York City to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their… Continue Reading Posted in: Beat Generation, Beat Generation Criticism, Friendship, Murder Thrillers

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