The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an importan...

The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin ClassicsTo coincide with the 50th anniversary ce...

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics ...

Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was...

The Poetry of the Blues

'A signal event in the history of the music.' - Ted Gioia, author of The Delta Blues

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of...

Abgang mit Stil (BR) Min:DD5.1 WS+UV

Abgang mit Stil

American avant-garde writers, sharing a certain distrust of the virtues of progress and power, ca...

A biography of the two comrades whose friendship defined what it meant to be one of The Beats

From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of ...

La nave tempestosa della vita di Vladimir Majakovskij, il cantore della Rivoluzione, respirò in e...

Fedele ritratto dello scrittore americano sono le lettere qui presentate che egli scrisse a paren...