"Kerouac wanted to get out and experience something bigger..." "With all the savage irresponsibility that that comes with.

On Tuesday, July 8, Universal debuted the trailer for its new documentary Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, which ...

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 ...

The face was that of the novel’s author, Jack Kerouac, who published the book in 1958 and who has been dead for 50 years. So, I asked, “Kerouac, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The iconic novel and founding text of the Beat Generation, On the Road, by American author Jack Kerouac, was a fundamental ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In late 1969, St. Petersburg Times reporter Jack McClintock visited several times with Jack Kerouac at Kerouac's home on 10th Avenue N for this story, which was ...

Jack Kerouac at 100: How a heady cocktail of trauma, faith and rotgut wine made a literary legend. A century after the ‘On The Road’ author’s birth, Kerouac’s close friend and collaborator ...

NEED TO KNOW. Matt Dillon and Josh Brolin help examine the legacy of On The Road author Jack Kerouac in the trailer for the new documentary Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation. The documentary ...