Jack Kerouac

  • North Beach forever

    "It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn," Jack Kerouac said of San Francisco. But what happens when you and your city grow up?
    By Gary Kamiya December 5, 2006

  • The sound bite and the fury

    Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
    By Louis Bayard April 19, 2003

  • Seinfeld considers crawling back

    Another season isn't out of the question; Dylan's made a stone saint. Plus: Crudup and Pitt to be Coppola's Beat boys, and Danny Bonaduce wrecks his boat and hits his head!
    By Amy Reiter June 25, 2001

  • "Orpheus Emerged"

    Jack Kerouac's lost 1945 novella has been rediscovered and given new life as an e-book.
    Read by Erik Jensen November 13, 2000

  • "On the Road"

    Matt Dillon stars in the new audio release of Jack Kerouac's infamous tale of social disillusionment, drugs, alcohol and mysticism.
    By Jack Kerouac October 9, 2000

  • My mother and Jack Kerouac

    Reading their love letters from before I was born is an eerie experience.
    By Daniel Pinchbeck June 8, 2000

  • Hugh Hefner

    The 20th century's indefatigable swinger is still mixing martinis, cavorting with naked women, encouraging men to play indoors and reinventing himself.
    By Chris Colin December 28, 1999

  • The Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut

    The author of "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Breakfast of Champions" talks about Capote and Kerouac, Hillary and Rudy, television and, of course, the end of the world.
    By Frank Houston October 8, 1999

  • Back to the '50s

    Five favorite novels from a decade that was wilder than you think.
    By E.L. Doctorow July 26, 1999

  • The Beats go on

    Filmmaker Chuck Workman on "The Source," his fawning tribute to the Beat generation.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams June 2, 1999

  • Gilbert Millstein

    Journalist, whose review of "On the Road" propelled Jack Kerouac to fame, dies.
    By Associated Press May 11, 1999

  • Some Of The Dharma

    Stephen Prothero reviews 'Some of the Dharma' by Jack Kerouac.
    By Stephen Prothero November 17, 1997

  • Personal Best: On The Road

    "On the Road", by Jack Kerouac.
    By Dwight Garner September 30, 1996
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