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This is Joyce Johnson's autobiography, set in 1950s New York. Johnson left her suburban,...
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William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac were three of the most significant figures of...
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The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac,...
Off The Road
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Off the Road tells the intimate story of two of the most famous, and yet enigmatic, figures in...
On the Road
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"On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend...
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Letters 1945-59
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Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac,...
Doctor Sax
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Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost,...
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
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In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth...
The Problem with Me: And Other Essays About Making Trouble in China Today
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"Funny and shrewd" (The New York Times Book Review) essays from China's most popular young...