Jack Kerouac
Poet and Author
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Jim Carroll...when he was 17, and gained plaudits from Beat Generation heroes such as William S Burroughs (who described him as a "born writer"), Jack Kerouac and Ted Berrigan. "He's 20 years old, stands 6ft 3in, and has a body like Nureyev," wrote... In this article: Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, Heroin, New York, The Basketball Diaries, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Richards, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ted Berrigan, and William S Burroughs |
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Omaha World-Herald | November 19, 2009
Cool cats and hip chicks find poetry just crazy, man
...refers to nonconformists of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Beat writers of the time include Kerouac, best known for On the Road, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Dressed in their best hipster attire, students arrived at 7:45...
In this article: Shel Silverstein, Pastry, Cocoa, Beat Generation, On the Road, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | October 07, 2009
Women have bitten off more than they can chew with school lunch
...implications resounding. It is 50 years since William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, which title Kerouac later explained, rightly or wrongly, as "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork". And although neither writer...
In this article: Sandwich, Snack food, Rice pudding, Bread, Cancer, Polymer, Obesity, Nitrite, and Hormone
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Wikipedia | October 30, 2009
Lucien Carr
...formed, with Carr at the center. As Ginsberg put it, "Lou was the glue. " Carr, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs explored New York's grimier underbelly together. Carr had a taste for provocative behavior, for bawdy songs and for coarse...
In this article: Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, United Press International, Columbia University, New York City, Beat, and Lionel Trilling
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Independent.co.uk - Books | January 12, 2009
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks, By William Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
...very good. Fortunately, there are exceptions, and this is one of them. In the 1940s, before cult status beckoned, Burroughs and Kerouac wrote a novel together. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks remained unpublished until now...
In this article: William Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Lucien Carr, Queer, Literary executor, Morphine, Hudson River, and New York
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PopMatters | July 30, 2009
memories, dreams and reflections by Marianne Faithfull (Review)
...remembrances she shares here involve the Beats. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso founded the Jack Kerouac of Disembodied Poetics, which was associated with the Naropa Institute. Faithfull taught lyric writing at the school and...
In this article: Marianne Faithfull, Psychology, Carl Jung, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Literature, Easy Come Easy Go, Cancer, and Breast cancer
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Wikipedia | July 28, 2009
Sylvester Houedard
...widely with leading poets, artists, theologians and philosophers of the day, including Robert Graves, Edwin Morgan, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mark Boyle, John Blofeld, Michael Horovitz and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
In this article: Sylvester Houedard, Jesus College, Oxford, Matsuo Basho, Meister Eckhart, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Horovitz, Mark Boyle, John Blofeld, Edwin Morgan, and Jerusalem Bible
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | June 13, 2009
Beat writers to get the Hollywood treatment
...Alan Alda. And there is a movie in the pipeline about Lucien Carr, the friend who brought Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs together, and his murder of a gay stalker which Kerouac and Burroughs helped to cover up in 1944. A film of On the...
In this article: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, On the Road, Francis Ford Coppola, Lucien Carr, The Motorcycle Diaries, British Film Institute, University of Leicester, and University of Warwick
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Allen Ginsberg
...debate group. In Ginsberg's freshman year at Columbia he met fellow undergraduate Lucien Carr, who introduced him to a number of future Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and John Clellon Holmes. They bonded...
In this article: Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Carlos Williams, Moloch, Beat Generation, William Blake, Paul Cezanne, and Peter Orlovsky
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Wikipedia | October 03, 2009
Donald Fagen
After graduating from South Brunswick High School in 1965, Fagen enrolled at Bard College to study English literature, having been inspired by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
In this article: Donald Jay Fagen, Steely Dan, Walter Becker, Bard College, Morph the Cat, The Nightfly, Thelonious Monk, Grammy Award, The King of Comedy, and Confide in Me
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Jack Kerouac (pronounced: /ˈkɛruːæk, ˈkɛrəwæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American author, poet and painter. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Kerouac's work was very popular, but received little critical acclaim during his lifetime. Today, he is considered an important and influential writer who inspired others, including Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Richard Brautigan, Ken Kesey, Haruki Murakami, Tom Waits and writers of the New Journalism.
Kerouac's best-known books are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, and Visions of Cody.
- Name At Birth:
- Jean Louis Kerouac
- Birth Date:
- March 12, 1922
- Birthplace:
- Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Death Date:
- October 21, 1969
- Place of Death:
- St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
- Nationality:
- American
- Occupation:
- Novelist, Poet, Painter
- Known for:
- On the Road
- Period:
- Beat
- Influenced By:
- Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, Jack London, James Joyce, Neal Cassady, Walt Whitman, Charlie Parker, Arthur Rimbaud, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Honoré de Balzac, John Fante, Matsuo Basho, the Diamond Sutra
- Influenced:
- Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, Ken Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Morrison, Roy Harper, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Tom Wolfe, Tom Waits, Jerry Garcia, Ben Gibbard, Joe Cutler, Russell Brand, Jim Dodge, Blake Schwarzenbach, The Hold Steady, Haruki Murakami
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