Jack Kerouac


On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Big Sur
The Subterraneans
Desolation Angels
Lonesome Traveler
Tristessa
Maggie Cassidy
On the Road: The Original Scroll
The Town and the City
Visions of Gerard
Visions of Cody
Dr. Sax
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
On the Road by Jack KerouacVisions of Cody by Jack KerouacThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacSatori In Paris by Jack KerouacVisions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac's The Duluoz Legend
15 books — 2 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Beat Generation Literature
114 books — 51 voters

Karl Wiggins
We’ve all got a dozen or so friends, haven’t we? And when we’re drunk we philosophise well into the night on an array of subjects ranging from what happened before the Big Bang to who would win a fight between a vampire and zombie, to what’s the most compromising position to be caught in, but we’re hardly going to be extolled in 60 or 70 years’ time as the Heat Generation or the Cheat Generation or the Street Generation, are we? The Tweet Generation, maybe, but that’s about all. So what was i ...more
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Jack Kerouac
Y es así como, una vez obtenida la esencia de su amor, ahora erijo grandes construcciones verbales, y de ese modo en realidad lo traiciono, repitiendo calumnias como quien tiende las sábanas sucias al mundo; y las suyas, las nuestras, durante los dos meses de nuestro amor (así lo creí) sólo fueron lavadas una vez, porque ella era una subterránea solitaria que se pasaba los días abstraída y decidida a llevarlas al lavadero, pero de pronto se descubre que ya es casi de noche y demasiado tarde, y l ...more
Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans

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