Kerouac

• “His fellow starving writers were beginning to attract fame as the 'Beat Generation,' a label Kerouac had invented years earlier during a conversation with fellow novelist John Clellon Holmes.”

  King of the Beat

• “Kerouac is chatting up a woman in a super-tight white dress.”

  The Huffington Post: Travis Nichols: Howl on the Red Carpet

• “It is dangerous to impute "development" in Kerouac's work, since the publication dates and the dates of composition of his books are so much at variance.”

  October 2009

• “Wherever people neglect to mow the grass, or curse the car payments, you're in Kerouac's Orlando because they, like him, were once from someplace else.”

  February 2007

• “Here's video of the On the Road scroll being unrolled recently for its display in Kerouac's birthplace, Lowell, Mass.”

  Rollin, Rollin, Rollin

• “Sampas, reached by phone at his home in Kerouac's native Lowell, Mass., last week, denied Nicosia's allegations.”

  Windmills

• “And although Kerouac is American-born, his parents were both Quebecois and he spoke only French until the age of six.”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “I am tempted to call him a Latin American Kerouac, given his wandering bohemian protagonists with their idiosyncratic literary ideals and often arbitrary itineraries.”

  All articles at Blogcritics

• “Millstein’s glowing praise brought the name of Kerouac to the attention of the reading public.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Typewriter Is Holy

• “What I remember most of “On the Road” is the cadence – the poetry in Kerouac’s prose that surpassed the poems of his friends, Ferlingetti and Ginsburg. —”

  ‘On the Road’ at 50 - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

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