Just in time for the scheduled May premiere of the first adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road at the Cannes Film Festival, Penguin books is reissuing Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac ...

Joyce Johnson reflects on 50 years of being around Kerouac and his work as she returns to the writer and relationship she wrote about in her award-winning memoir, Minor Characters, this time in The ...

Growing up in Lowell, Paul Maher Jr. prowled the same streets Jack Kerouac eulogized in novels that sent generations of restless youth looking for kicks. Maher was raised in the blue collar ...

A Jack Kerouac biographer claims he has not been properly acknowledged. June 6, 2007 — -- The 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's generation-defining novel "On the Road" is approaching, but among ...

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One night in early April, 1958, Joyce Glassman’s doorbell rang and woke her. An aspiring novelist who worked as a secretary at a small publishing firm, Glassman lived in a tenement on East Thirteenth ...