Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac’s City By Bill Morgan

This is the ultimate guide to everything “Beat” in New York. Follow the footsteps of Kerouac and his friends to Greenwich Village bars and cafés, the Chelsea-district apartment where Jack wrote On the Road, midtown clubs where Beat poets mingled with artists and listened to jazz and blues greats such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Billie Holiday, Times Square, and Columbia University, where the original Beats first met. Each tour includes a map and description of what the Kerouac did as he lived, worked and partied in the big city of New York.