Jack Kerouac

For the Love of Lit: Our Five Best Book Events This Week

I Like Your Glasses: Literary Speed Dating Housing Works Bookstore Tonight, 7pm, $10 Your skepticism is justified. People with the rock-solid attention spans and copious alone time required to really bunker down to some hardcore reading tend to be the very same who run for the stacks when faced with ... More >>

On the Road Is Tamed at Last

Dharma Bummer

YOU DON’T KNOW JACK

Kerouac’s friend tells all

Daniel Radcliffe Is Playing The Same Gay Icon James Franco Played

Harry Potter is going gay. Daniel Radcliffe just wrapped the movie Kill Your Darlings, which involves a murder that brings together renowned Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Gisnberg. And Radcliffe plays Ginsberg.

Bob Dylan (1) Gets In The Pit With Sick Of It All (16) In SOTC's March Madness

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. We'll have some first-round results later today, but ... More >>

Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers

Tom PalumboJack Kerouac, on the road somewhere ...​ For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that ... More >>

COMING INTO FOCUS

Last chance to catch Elliott Erwitt's famous photos

Happy 100th Birthday, New York Public Library!

​The New York Public Library is now 100 years old. It looks so good! The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd and Fifth Avenue -- you know, the main building, with the lions -- opened exactly 100 years ago today for borrowing. It's gone from having 1 million items to 65 million "and counting ... More >>

The Fighter Feels Rigged

Jack Kerouac's Last Typewriter Hits the Auction Block

via Christie's​History-philes and Beat-philes will love this one: Christie's is auctioning off Jack Kerouac's last typewriter. It's an awesomely vintage-green Hermes and in good working condition, just the right deco note for your totally retro studio apartment, should you have a spare $20,000 ... More >>

The Gaslight Anthem's Fading Glory Days

New Jersey's finest Boss acolytes are too young to be so nostalgic, and so safe

Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality

Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging

GET A ROOM

A new play recalls the Hotel Chelsea's history

Tonight! The Long Winters, TMBG, The Wrens (Well, One Of 'Em), and The Long Count

So if the idea of Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar singing songs inspired by a Jack Kerouac novel fills you with delight, than by all means, hit Webster Hall tonight. If you're hostile or indifferent, though, go anyway: The Long Winters are opening. John Roderick is perhaps the finest purveyor of sensit ... More >>

Interview: Jay Farrar on Finding Inspiration in Jack Kerouac's Big Sur and Working With Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard

Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard As a member of Uncle Tupelo, a solo artist, and now, in his second go as the leader of Son Volt, Jay Farrar has written hundreds of songs--and in terms of inspiration and the creative process, he's found that cultivating a bit of eccentricity can result in great music. As ... More >>

Robert Frank's Real America

The photographer who changed the way we look at—and depict—ourselves.

Free Will Astrology: January 7 through 13

Clip Job: Beyond the Beats

Clip Job: The Mailer-Kerouac Thing Settled at Last

Free Will Astrology: September 24 to 30

Clip Job: Allen Ginsberg on The Dharma Bums

Clip Job: Young Socialists on Jack Kerouac

Jimmy Breslin on Kerouac: Get Him a Box of Periods!

Clip Job: Breslin on Kerouac in Brooklyn

Clip Job: What is the Beat Generation?

Clip Job: Jack Kerouac Live at the Vanguard

Clip Job: I'm Not Kerouac's 'Uptown Chick'

Clip Job: Jack Kerouac's Personal Favorite Book

Hugs and Kisses #33: Be Your Own Pet, El Perro Del Mar, Black Kids

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Yaeger to Kerouac: 'Hey, You Old Dharma Bum!'

Off the Road

Hey, Jack Kerouac, I know you dressed like a bum, but a shop in Soho is selling your boots for $475

The Beat Goes On

Down the road: Revisiting the freewheeling Jack Kerouac, gauging Ginsberg's influence

Just Jack

The Beat re-generation: ERS brings back late-night Kerouac

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

1957

The Bohemian Diaspora

'On the Road'

The Octopussarian Drugstore Cowboy

Alfred Leslie has not left the building

Horoscope

Beat Happening

Adrift in the valley of lost men, or Ph'nglui mglw'nath Jack Kerouac wagn'nagl fhtagn

Men in Bay Ridge

The Right to Be Wrong

On the Occasion of a New Lester Bangs Book, Punk Pioneer Richard Hell Remembers the Late, Great Rock Critic

Close Up On: Morningside Heights

Firecracker Alternative Book Awards

Beat Manifestos

MIX Bagged

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Poetry Project

'Ginsberg and Friends' at Sotheby's

Blast to the Past