Tom Peters, owner of Boulder’s Beat Book Shop, can’t tell you his favorite piece by Jack Kerouac, as he considers most of the books to actually make up one large work. (Kerouac was of the same mind.) ...

The original Beat movement of the 1950s and ‘60s gave us Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Michael McClure’s play “The Beard” and reams of other lively radical writings. But that ...

“Let the cats in,” someone shouted, while an overflow crowd of hundreds pushed against doors barred by anxious college girls. The place was Hunter College Playhouse on November 6, where there was a ...

Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 this year on March 12. Kerouac's classic 1957 novel "On The Road" was loosely based on his travels with friends across the U.S. The book continues to inspire ...

An excerpt of Neal Cassady‘s “ Joan Anderson Letter” is enough to leave even a casual student of the Beat Generation with the indelible impression that Jack Kerouac gave it a read and never looked ...

A century after his birth in Lowell, the city is hosting a yearlong celebration of Jack Kerouac, one of the foremost voices of the Beat Generation. “Visions of Kerouac” features many artifacts, ...

Author Jack Kerouac (inset) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 100 years ago this month. Denis Tangney Jr, via Getty Images Here’s a reason to get on the road. It was 100 years ago this week that Beat ...