Kerouac, Jack

Summary: The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KER

Contents: October in the railroad earth / Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen -- Gears / Gil Melle -- The Beat generation / Mamie Van Doren -- My baby / Ken Nordine -- Saturn / Sun ra and his Arkestra -- Jackie / Lambert Hendricks & Ross -- Atomic cocktail / Slim Gaillard -- Salt peanuts / Dizzy Gillespie -- Discovery of America / Al "Jazzbo" Collins -- Blue monk / Theonious Monk -- Dog / Lawrence Ferlinghetti...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Red Records 0000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BEA

Summary: This incisive and entertaining portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mélange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America. In 1953 Ferlinghetti opened City Lights Bookstore, which quickly evolved into an iconic...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FER