The Essential Kerouac

A collection of Jack Kerouac’s works of fiction including On the Road and The Dharma Bums plus his 30 Beliefs and Techniques For Writing Modern Prose

It has been a Beat Sunday! In the morning, I got Allen Ginsberg’s America translated in Meiteilon; and now we have Jack Kerouac, with ten of his most famous works in fiction, and a list of other works plus his 30 Beliefs and Techniques For Writing Modern Prose (see below).

Jack Kerouac’s Belief & Technique for Modern Prose:

List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Writing and Life

Keywords     Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation, William S Burroughs, Fiction, Novels, Novellas, The Sea Is My Brother (1942), The Town and the City (1950), On the Road (1957), The Subterraneans (1958), The Dharma Bums (1958), Doctor Sax (1959), Visions of Cody (1960), Big Sur (1962), Desolation Angels (1965), Satori in Paris (1966), modern prose, techniques, writing

More fiction from Kerouac   And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945/2008; with William S. Burroughs), Maggie Cassidy (1959), Tristessa (1960), Book of Dreams (1960), Visions of Gerard (1963), Vanity of Duluoz (1968), Pic (1971), Orpheus Emerged (2002), Lonesome Traveler (1960)

 

The Beat on this Blog

• The Best of the Beat: A selection of book titles, a few by the Beatniks, a few on them and by others who have been bracketed under the Beat Generation
• ginsberg-gi amerika: A translation of Allen Ginsberg’s America in Meiteilon
• On dreaming in colours and light: A poem inspired by Allen Ginsberg and RATM