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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
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culture · American writer (1922–1969) · writer · poet · novelist · screenwriter · prose writer · also Jack Kerouac, Kerouac, Jean-Louis Kerouac, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Born 12 March 1922 · Died 21 October 1969 · Q160534
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It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? — sleep.
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“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
“It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? — sleep.”
“to be considered as a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jazz session on Sunday.”
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“asked for an aspirin for his headaches and they diagnosed me dementia praecox and sent me here.”
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The Lowell Sun: Eye on Art: Whistler exhibit celebrates artists influenced by Jack Kerouac
The Daily Californian: Selling out Jack Kerouac
The Guardian: Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned
The Guardian: ‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction
The Guardian: Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation review – revisiting the legacy of a counterculture classic
Yahoo: Jack Kerouac's Immigrant Mindset and 'Outsider's Feeling' Shaped His American Road-Trip Classic “On the Road” (Exclusive)
The Guardian: ‘His soulful best’: Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist writings to be published for the first time
Country singer-songwriter, Zach Bryan, purchased the former St
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The Guardian: Sterling Lord, agent who championed Jack Kerouac and more, dies at 102
New York Post: King of ‘The Road’: Jack Kerouac’s hometown fetes author’s 100th birthday
The Guardian: Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years
The Guardian: The road well travelled: 100 years of Jack Kerouac
The Boston Globe: Jack Kerouac’s road from bum to hometown hero
The Guardian: From road trip to catwalk: Jack Kerouac classic inspires Dior collection
Jack Kerouac's literary legacy influenced contemporary fashion when Kim Jones (designer) based Dior Men's Fall 2022 collection on Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road
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autoweek: Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ Brought Highbrow Literature to Everyone
The Village Voice: Jack Kerouac: ‘The Night and What It Does to You’
“Jack Kerouac: ‘The Night and What It Does to You’”
Yahoo: These Jack Kerouac Quotes Will Convince You to Get 'On the Road' and Leave It All Behind
Hyperallergic: Jack Kerouac's Beat Paintings
A whole volume of previously unpublished works originally written in French by Kerouac was published as La vie est d'hommage
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By the Library of America in The Unknown Kerouac
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And was directed by Walter Salles and produced by Francis Ford Coppola
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70 years after it was written and over 40 years after Kerouac's death
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During the first weekend of October, the 25th anniversary of the literary festival "Lowell Celebrates Kerouac" was held in Kerouac's birthplace of Lowell, Massachusetts
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The movie One Fast Move or I'm Gone – Kerouac's Big Sur was released
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Kerouac was posthumously awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell
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To coincide with the 50th anniversary of On the Road's publishing, Viking issued two new editions: On the Road: The Original Scroll and On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Kerouac was mentioned in the single "Nolwenn Ohwo
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The Chicago Tribune published a story by journalist Oscar J
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The house on Clouser Avenue where The Dharma Bums was written was purchased by a newly formed non-profit group, The Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, Inc
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The Nouvelle Revue Française had already published excerpts and an article on "La nuit est ma femme", and scholar Paul Maher Jr
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And 1988: "Sur la route" by Pierre Flynn, and "L'ange vagabond" by Richard Séguin
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The film Heart Beat was released into theaters
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The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics was opened in his honor by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman at Naropa University, a private Buddhist university in Boulder, Colorado
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Died 1969-10-21.
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“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
“Jestem katolikiem i nie mogę popełnić samobójstwa, ale planuję zapić się na śmierć.”
“Nie jestem beatnikiem. Jestem katolikiem.”
“Vive tu memoria y asómbrate.”
“Todo lo que haces es encaminarte derecho a la tumba, un rostro cubre el esqueleto por un tiempo. Extiende esa cubierta del cráneo y sonríe».[All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile]”
“Mi testigo es el cielo vacío». [My witness is the empty sky]”
Kerouac last appeared on television for an episode of Firing Line, produced and hosted by William F
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Met the poet Youenn Gwernig who was a Breton American like him in New York, and they became friends
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And his mother suffered a paralyzing stroke in 1966
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Is made up of 242 choruses following the rhythms of jazz
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And also uses the real names of Kerouac's friends rather than the fictional names he later substituted
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After being rejected by several other publishers, On the Road was finally purchased by Viking Press, which demanded major revisions prior to publication
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Kerouac worked on a book about him, which he considered calling Visions of Gary
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Kerouac wrote a biography of Siddhartha Gautama, titled Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha, which was unpublished during his lifetime, but eventually serialized in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, 1993–95
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Began an intensive study of this sutra, in a repeating weekly cycle, devoting one day to each of the six Pāramitās, and the seventh to the concluding passage on Samādhi
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Kerouac discovered Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible at the San Jose Library, which marked the beginning of his study of Buddhism
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Lived mostly in New York City, having a brief but passionate affair with Alene Lee, an African-American woman, and member of the Beat generation
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Kerouac endorsed the Old Right candidate Robert A
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Under the name "John Kerouac" and, though it earned him a few respectable reviews, the book sold poorly
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Read Heinrich Zimmer's Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
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Kerouac was arrested as a material witness in the murder of David Kammerer, who allegedly had been stalking Kerouac's friend Lucien Carr since Carr was a teenager in St
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Joined the United States Navy Reserves
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Kerouac wrote his first novel, The Sea Is My Brother
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While six years old, Kerouac made his first Confession
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When Jack's older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever, aged nine
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In Lowell, Massachusetts, to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque
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Born 1922-03-12.
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