Matt Dillon and Josh Brolin help examine the legacy of On The Road author Jack Kerouac in the trailer for the new documentary ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Author Jack Kerouac set an ambitious task for himself when he pondered writing On the Road, his 1957 masterpiece that still reverberates in the American imagination. “My purpose is to ...

Jack Kerouac, author of "On the Road" was a hero to a generation of young people, would-be novelists and poets, including the Minister of Culture. Now, an Ohio novelist suggests what would have ...

Kerouac died nine days later, on Oct. 21, at St. Anthony's Hospital. According to Kevin Hayes, author of the book Conversations With Jack Kerouac, McClintock's interviews were Kerouac's last.

Did Jack Kerouac really write On the Road in a drug-fueled three-week frenzy? Yes — and no. Whether you believe the legend or not, it's 50 years since the event, and the 120-foot scroll is on ...

Jack Kerouac’s best writing not only rumbles more smoothly than a ’49 Hudson, it also contains the foretaste of tragedy, writes John Winters.

First the good news: Jack Kerouac’s “lost” novel “The Sea Is My Brother” (Da Capo: 216 pp., $23) isn’t entirely unreadable. In fact, the book — written in 1943 when the author was 21 ...

Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation releases in select theaters Aug. 1 Matt Dillon and Josh Brolin are among a number of celebrities paying tribute to Jack Kerouac in a new documentary.