A lost story written and signed by legendary San Francisco writer Jack Kerouac has been found among the belongings of an infamous mafia boss who was gunned down in 1985. The two-page story, titled ...

An unpublished story by American author Jack Kerouac – described as a 'lost chapter' of his most famous work On The Road – has been discovered in the files of a dead Mafia boss. Kerouac, who died aged ...

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Newly arrived in Czech Republic, and living in the basement of a 95-year-old school, I was desperate for a change of scene. Having just read Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” my headlong rush reminded me ...

This coming Oct. 9-13 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) will present our 37th Annual Jack Kerouac Festival. The first one was held in the summer of 1988 with the Dedication of the Jack Kerouac ...

He called Mexico “The Pure Land;" he even invented a name for those peasants whose legs were deep roots to the past: a “Fellaheen” (innocent), he wrote, life’s feeling. When Jack Kerouac arrived in ...

Filmmaker Ebs Burnough's new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in theaters now Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road is widely regarded as a 20th century American classic, but the ...

Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

'The road' is a long-travelled concept. While it has belonged to many for centuries, perhaps the father of road tales is the often-referred-to "king of the beats", Jack Kerouac. He revolutionized what ...

'The road' is a long-travelled concept. The protagonist – and often, antagonist – in many movies, including Little Miss Sunshine, Nomadland, and most recently Will & Harper, is that stretch of asphalt ...