Jack Kerouac Archives

Jack Kerouac

The Wolfe Pack

by Geoff Dyer,

From the introduction to a new edition of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published last month by Picador. More than half a century after Tom Wolfe’s…

Getting the Pump

by Jordan Castro,

On the resurrection of the body

The beat degeneration

by Harper’s Staff,

On the road to nowhere

by Sven Birkerts,

Kerouac, re-read and regretted

Books in brief

by Roderick Cook,

Musclemen and dreamers

by Benjamin DeMott,

The delights of literary lecturing

by Kingsley Amis,

The city and some wicked citizens

by Paul Murphy Pickrel,

Forecast

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

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