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Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life, the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation...

Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin...

On the Road, a book that was the bible and manifesto of the beat generation, has become a “cult novel” and a North American classic. With its unmistaken bop style, this novel is a portrait of an underground America, authentic and uninhibited, far from...

Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classics, On the Road. Centering around the tempestuous romance and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou...

In one of the central works of the great beat writer, Kerouac writes about his discovery of Buddhism and its first law: “life is suffering”, as it was during these years that he felt most like a failure for not finding a publisher. Taking...

One of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959, after the appearance of On the Road had made its author famous overnight. Long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England...

Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the...