Jack Kerouac's musings on the creative process are collected together for the first time in this exquisite book. In the 1950s Allen Ginsberg asked Kerouac to formally describe his "spontaneous prose" method, resulting in a list of maxims called Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Kerouac entertains with sage advice, whether he's offering a sublime reminder to "believe in the holy contour of life" or a practical admonition to "accept loss forever." With a foreword by Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich and select photos from the Kerouac Estate, You're a Genius All the Time is a beautiful and intimate work of inspiration. Hardcover.
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In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in such books as Mexico City Blues and The Dharma Bums. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in paperback, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddhartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, Wake Up serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha's life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism. This edition includes an insightful introduction by Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman addressing Kerouac's engagement with Buddhism in his work and his life.
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The Awakener is Helen Weaver's long awaited memoir of her adventures with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, and other wild characters from the New York City of the fifties and sixties. The sheltered but rebellious daughter of bookish Midwestern parents, Weaver survived a repressive upbringing in the wealthy suburbs of Scarsdale and an early divorce to land in Greenwich Village just in time for the birth of rock 'n' roll—and the counterculture movement known as the Beat Generation. Paperback
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Two young men , Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, search for Truth the Zen way, from yabyum and poetry in Marin County, Berkeley and San Francisco to solitude in the High Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road, which put the Beat Generation on the literary map, "The Dharma Bums" helped launch the "rucksack revolution". In honor of the 50th anniversary of this classic Beat text, Viking has published this new hardcover edition, prefaced with a letter from Henry Miller to the publisher, remarking on his first reading of the book. Readers' Reviews: Hardcover, 187 pages
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For the first time, the original On the Road as dear old Jack wrote it. Published in its entirety from Kerouac's original manuscript, this new edition contains material originally omitted/censored from previous versions and never before seen—until now. As an added bonus, all character pseudonyms have been replaced with their actual names. Read On the Road as it was meant to be read.
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The classic edition of On the Road returns, published by Viking in a 50th Anniversary commemmorative hardcover edition.
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Edited and with an introduction by Regina Weinreich
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From the text: "Jack Kerouac took himself seriously as a visual artist and on a number of occasions told friends he would have been a painter if he weren't a writer. His enthusiasm for art was omnivorous, he drew, he painted, he designed covers for his books, and as he sketched with words, so he sketched with images: organized and deliberate but spontaneous, and supported by typically Kerouac, methodically detailed theory.
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"A story of self-invention, perseverance and breakthrough that should help rescue Kerouac from the cultists and secure his admission to the mainstream hall of fame, where he deserves to rest... The traditional rap against Kerouac—that he was a sort of half-baked dopehead primitivist who prized sensation over sense—crumbles on a reading of his journals. For every entry concerning a wild night out with his colorful cohort of insomniac poets, opiated philosophers and autodidact ex-cons, there's a meditation on Mark Twain or a list of favorite Renaissance poets. ...What Kerouac wanted most, the journals reveal, was to dig down into the dark American earth as his heroes Twain and Whitman had and turn up his own rich shovel-ful of truth. He trusted, finally, in his own energy, but it was an energy produced from the finest sources: great books, adventurous friends, high moral purpose and wide experience." -The New York Times Book Review
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Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty (Jack and Neal Cassady) roar across America in the novel that defined the Beat Generation and changed the course of America. Called the "Huckleberry Finn of the twentieth century" by the New York Times Book Review in 1957, this book has remained a bestseller throughout the 1990's. In his September 5, 1957 New York Times review, Gilbert Millstein declared that " 'On The Road' was the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat'." This hardcover edition, and the original New York Times review, commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original publication of an American classic. Readers' Reviews: Each book is 307 pages. The audio book is read by David Carradine, abridged, 3 hours
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