Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
You’ll Be Okay You’ll Be Okay Edie Parker Kerouac Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found h… OL12098203W
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice Allen Ginsberg These are earliest journals and never-before-published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals throughout his entire… OL14997473W
The beat generation The beat generation Lynn M. Zott "The second title in the new Gale Critical Companion collection series focusing on important literary movements brings together the salient topics, representative works, and major writers of Beat lit… OL18221436W
Memory babe Memory babe Gerald Nicosia A thoroughly researched portrait of Beat writer Jack Kerouac and his life, times, and work. OL3943373W
Off the road Off the road Carolyn Cassady This book was a natural progression for me - my first being The Subterraneans followed by On The Road both by Jack Kerouac and then this book Off The Road. An interesting read, humorous, startling a… OL4443889W
Spontaneous Mind Spontaneous Mind Allen Ginsberg,David A. Carter "The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging … OL4624474W
Atop an Underwood Atop an Underwood Jack Kerouac An anthology of early stories by the poet of the Beat generation. Topics range from his time in Columbia University, from which he was expelled, to an excerpt from a novel which is based on his servi… OL65917W
Book of Dreams Book of Dreams Jack Kerouac,Robert Creeley Book of Dreams is a comprehensive dream journal published by Jack Kerouac in 1960 that covers all recorded dreams from 1952-1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his b… OL65921W
Bis ans Ende aller Straßen Bis ans Ende aller Straßen Frederik Hetmann Schriftstellerische Tätigkeit und Tod des Autors Jack Kerouac als Biografie in Romanform. OL9059885W