A selective list of online literary criticism for Kack Kerouac, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Charters, Ann. "Ann Charters on Jack Kerouac," an interview with Ann Charters, by Jack Foley. In Poetry Flash Number 288 (August/September 2001)
Harris, Oliver. Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters - Allen Ginsberg - Jack Kerouac - Neal Cassady, in Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 2000
Januzzi, Marisa. "Kerouac and Berrigan and the Poetics of Providence," a fruitful compare and contrast of the two writers. [ejournal] Poetry and New Materialities
Mortenson, Erik R. Beating time: Configurations of temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, in College Literature, Fall 2001
Prothero, Stephen. A review of Some of the Dharma, the recently published notebooks of Kerouac covering the period from 1953-1956 when Kerouac was exploring Buddhism. Reveiwed by Professor Prothero in Salon.com, Nov. 1997
Sørensen, Bent. "An On & Off Beat: Kerouac's Beat Etymologies." In Philament vol.3, April 2004
Suiter, John. An essay about John Suiter's Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalem & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades, "Gary Snyder on Crater Mountain, 1952, " by Noel V. Bourasaw. Skagit River Journal
Suiter, John. A web site for John Suiter's Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalem & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades, provides excerpts from the book, some photos, and information about purchasing it
Weinreich, Regina. A review of Kerouac, Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich. Reviewer Keith Abbott contends that Kerouac "wrote the largest body of the best haiku in the English language." In Rain Taxi, Winter 2003/2004
Teaching resources for Jack Kerouac from C-Span, created for their 2002 American Writers series
Some interesting facts and images on Kerouac's use of San Antonio, Texas, in On the Road. From the innovative web site Literary San Antonio, by Paul McQuien and Kim G. Hochmeister, at San Antonio College
"My mother and Jack Kerouac," article about Joyce Johnson, author of Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958, by her son. In Salon.com, June 2000
An extensive introduction to Jack Kerouac from National Public Radio
An exhibit on the former black sheep of Lowell, Mass., Jack Kerouac, from the Lowell National Historical Park (moved or taken offline)
A brief biography of Jack Kerouac from the Kerouac Foundation (404 not found)
(removed) Brief discussion of the unpublished Kerouac papers in Lowell, Mass., and an introduction to Kerouac by historian Douglas Brinkley, who has been granted unique access to the Kerouac archives. In The Atlantic Monthly Online, November 1998
The history of Circle magazine, an experimental San Francisco publication started in 1944
A site from the Naropa Institute contains audio files of lectures given at Naropa by Beat writers. The Naropa Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 3500 recordings made at Naropa since 1974
Hayward, Michael. The publishing history of Beat writers, MA thesis (1991)
Details on the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955
Book Collecting: Beat Literature, article by a book collector, Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, by Steve Clay & Rodney Phillips. Based on the acclaimed 1998 exhibition at the NY Public Library documenting experimental literary publishing in this period. Courtesy of Granary Books (now blocked)
"A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980." Underground Publications Document Poetry's 'Mimeo Revolution' in Exhibition at The NY Public Library, featuring the handmade, experimental publications of work by writers and artists of the period. Press release about a 1998 exhibition at the NYPL (removed)
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