Kerouac in a sentence

There is some confusion surrounding his name, partly because of variations on the spelling of Kerouac, and because of Kerouac's own statement of his name as Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac by Tom Palumbo circa 1956 The Town and the City was published in 1950 under the name "John Kerouac" and, though it earned him a few respectable reviews, the book sold poorly.

John Antonelli's 1985 documentary Kerouac, the Movie begins and ends with footage of Kerouac reading from On the Road and Visions of Cody on The Steve Allen Plymouth Show in November 1959.

Kerouac saw them as the dark (Ginsberg) and light (Cassady) side of their "New Vision", a perception stemming partly from Ginsberg's association with communism, of which Kerouac had become increasingly distrustful.

Kerouac's novel is often described as the defining work of the post-World War II Beat Generation and Kerouac came to be called "the king of the beat generation," citation a term with which he never felt comfortable.

The Dharma Bums contains accounts of a mountain climbing trip Kerouac took with Snyder, and also whole paragraphs from letters Snyder had written to Kerouac.

So is The Dharma Bums: most Kerouac, in fact.

These are all places that Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac spent a lot of time.

Among its denizens were Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso.

That summer they ran into Jack Kerouac, who was briefly living in Berkeley with his mother.

Both the Stones movie and “Pull My Daisy,” based on a Kerouac play and featuring fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, featured prearranged scenes shot in a style that made the action appear spontaneous.

During this time, she developed friendships with major players in the Beat Generation, including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Frank O’Hara.

It’s just that in a narrative dominated by men like Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Herbert Huncke, they’re hardly ever talked about.

The notes are in the Kerouac archive at the Berg Collection in the 42nd Street Library in New York.

According to Kerouac, On the Road "was really a story about two Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God.

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2006.

Artists including the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and The Doors all credit Kerouac as a significant influence on their music and lifestyles.

As a fictional character Burroughs was fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical novel On the Road as "Old Bull Lee".

As recounted in Kerouac's Dharma Bums, even at age 25 Snyder felt he could have a role in the fateful future meeting of West and East.

As the large majority of people in the Beat movement had urban backgrounds, writers like Ginsberg and Kerouac found Snyder, with his backcountry and manual-labor experience and interest in things rural, a refreshing and almost exotic individual.