Jack Kerouac

Ben Gibbard Won't See 'New Moon' This Weekend 11/19/2009

How Gibbard and Farrar Turned Kerouac Folk on “One Fast Move or I’m Gone” Soundtrack 11/16/2009

Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar Perform Kerouac Music 10/26/2009

Ben Gibbard Reenacted Jack Kerouac's Big Sur Retreat 10/13/2009

NJ Springsteen symposium takes scholars on a trip down Thunder Road 09/27/2009

Jack Kerouac was the major writer of the "Beat" movement in the '50s. His major work was On the Road (1957), an autobiographical novel describing his travels in the company of a unique character named Dean Moriarty (in real life, Neal Cassady). In later novels, Kerouac told other tales of life on the road and also wrote of his childhood and upbringing in Lowell, MA. Although he was a profound ...more