Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

The documentary "interweaves stories of modern-day 'on-the-roaders' who share connections to Kerouac’s life, alongside those [who were] influenced by him or knew and loved him," according to an ...

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This coming Oct. 9-13 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) will present our 37th Annual Jack Kerouac Festival. The first one was held in the summer of 1988 with the Dedication of the Jack Kerouac ...

'The road' is a long-travelled concept. While it has belonged to many for centuries, perhaps the father of road tales is the often-referred-to "king of the beats", Jack Kerouac. He revolutionized what ...

Much of Colorado’s literature is about the flow of people whose imaginations, like the novelist Peter Heller’s, were ignited by myths of unbridled freedom. He recommends some favorites. By Peter ...