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Jack Kerouac
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Works by Family & Friends
 | "You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac" [2007] by Edie Kerouac-Parker, Edited by Timothy Moran & Bill Morgan City Lights Books pb [9/2007] for $10.17 |
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"Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck & The King of The Beats" [2000] by Joan Haverty Kerouac Creative Arts 9x6 pb [8/2000] for $14.95 |
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"Jack Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography" [1999] by David Sandison & Carolyn Cassady Chicago Review Press 11x8¼ hardcover [10/99] for $17.47 |
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"Off The Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg" [1990] a memoir by Carolyn Cassady Penguin 8½x5½ pb [8/91] for $10.47 Wm. Morrow 9½x6½ hardcover [7/90] out of print/used |
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"Trainsong" [1988 sequel to 'Baby Driver'] by Jan Kerouac Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/98] for $11.16 Henry Holt pb [4/89] out of print/used Henry Holt hardcover [2/88] out of print/used |
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"Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming-Of-Age In The Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac" [1983] memoir by Joyce Glassman Johnson Penguin 7¾x5 pb [7/99] for $10.50 |
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"Baby Driver" [1981] by Jan Kerouac
Thunder's Mouth Press 8.2x5½ pb [4/98] for $11.16 Henry Holt pb [3/99] out of print/used St. Martin hardcover [9/81] out of print/used |
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"Heart Beat: My Life With Jack & Neal" [1976] by Carolyn Cassady Creative Arts pb [7/76] out of print/used "Heart Beat" feature film [Orion 1980]
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Fiction About Jack
and-or The Beats
 | "Go" [1952] by John Clellon Holmes generally acknowledged as the first published Beat novel Thunder's Mouth Press pb [10/2002] for $11.17 Thunder's Mouth 8x5¼ pb [10/97] out of print/used Thunder's Mouth hardcover [10/88] out of print/used NAL Trade pb [10/80] out of print/used |
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"Kerouac's Ghost" [1996] by Kenneth McGoogan Robert Davies Publg 8½x5½ pb [10/96] for $12.99 |
 | "Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel" [Oct 2001] by Chuck Rosenthal a novel written 'in the voice of Jack Kerouac' Hollyridge Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2001] for $16.76 |
Videos & DVDs
Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" feature film
[American Zoetrope/United Artists for release in 2011?]
Francis Coppola bought the movie rights to Kerouac's classic novel in 1979;
set for filming in Summer 2010; latest info from IMDb
to be directed by Walter Salles; recent casting includes
Sam Riley as Sal Paradise {Kerouac},
Garrett
Hedlund as Dean Moriarty {Neal Cassady},
Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee {Wm. S. Burroughs},
Amy Adams as Jane (Burroughs' wife Joan Vollmer}, and
Kristen Stewart as Mary Lou Moriarty
 | "Howl" feature film [Oscilloscope Sept 2010] Allen Ginsberg's reading and book publication of the poem "Howl" triggered a federal trial for obscenity that resulted in a landmark decision. Co-produced, co-written & co-directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman; starring James Franco {as Ginsberg}, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm {as Jake Ehrlich}, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams, Aaron Tveit {as Peter Orlovsky}, Bob Balaban, Sean Patrick Reilly, Jon Prescott {as Neal Cassady}, Todd Rotondi {as Jack Kerouac}, Andrew Rogers {as Lawrence Ferlinghetti}, with archive footage of Allen Ginsberg and animation by The Monk Studios DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia official blog of lawyer Jake Ehrlich's estate |
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"One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur" [indep release April 2008]
A documentary look at the summer of 1960, when Jack Kerouac retreated to Lawrence Ferlin-ghetti's remote cabin in the wilds south of Monterey, California – a time that formed the basis for Kerouac's 1962 novel "Big Sur". Co-produced & directed by Curt Worden; featuring Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, David Amram, Sterling Lord, Michael McClure, Carolyn Cassady, John Allen Cassady, Jami Cassady, Donal Logue, Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Robert Hunter, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, John Ventimiglia, S.E. Hinton, Aram Saroyan, Amber Tamblyn, Erik Bauersfeld, Dar Williams, Diamond Dave Whitaker, Benjamin Gibbard, Jay Farrar, Sage Francis, Brenda Knight, Jack Hirschman, Dana Godbe, Herbert Gold, John Tytell, Bill Morgan & Paul Marion video/DVD not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "Neal Cassady" [I.F.C. airdate May 2008]
Written & directed by Noah Buschel; starring Tate Donovan {as Neal Cassady}, Glenn Fitzgerald {as Kerouac}, Chris Bauer {as Ken Kesey}, Amy Ryan, Yehuda Duenyas {as Allen Ginsberg}, Hanna Hall, Josh Hamilton, Brendan Sexton III, Liza Weil, Merritt Wever, Stephen Adly Guirgis & Paz de la Huerta video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb |
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"Beat Angel: The Spirit of Kerouac" [indep 2006] Directed by Randy Allred; starring: Vincent Balestri, Frank Tabbita, Lisa Niemi & Amy Humphrey self-published color DVD [10/2006] for $24.95 official movie site |
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"Finding Jack Kerouac" [indep 2002] Written & directed by Jeff Lyon; starring Randall Sims, Christopher Lapish & Noelle Manuel order DVD [10/2005] via FilmBaby for $15.99 credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"Book of The Blues" [2001 short]
Adapted {from "San Francisco Blues"} & directed by Lochlan Shelfer
video not available; credits at IMDb
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"On The Road with Jack Kerouac" [1990] also known as "Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats" Produced & directed by John Antonelli Goldhil Media color DVD [4/2003] for $22.46 Goldhil Media color VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 Active Home Video VHS [6/90] out of stock/used |
 | "Jack Kerouac's Road: A Franco-American Odyssey" [1988] Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Kultur Video color VHS [7/99] for $19.95 full credits from IMDb |
 | "What Happened To Kerouac?" [1985 documentary] Initial concept by Malcolm Hart; co-produced & co-directed by Lewis MacAdams, co-directed by Richard Lerner; featuring Steve Allen, Wm. S. Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Ann Charters, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Joyce Johnson, Jan Kerouac, Michael McClure, Edie Kerouac Parker, Gary Snyder, with archive footage of William F. Buckley, Neal Cassady & Ed Sanders Sony b&w/color DVD [8/2003] for $13.99 Winstar VHS [9/98] for $9.00 full credits from IMDb |
 | "Kerouac, The Movie" [1984] Produced, co-written & directed by John Antonelli Mystic Fire b&w/color VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
Produced & directed by John Antonelli
"The Subterraneans" [June 1960]
Directed by Ranald MacDougall; starring George Peppard
video/DVD not available • full credits from IMDb
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"Pull My Daisy" [1958] Written by Jack Kerouac; directed by Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie; narration by Jack Kerouac, starring Ginsberg, Corso & Orlovsky VHS video available for $39.95 online from Fog City full credits from IMDb |
"I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous: Jack Kerouac & His Legacy" [year unknown]
video not available • credits from IMDb
Other Media
Kerouac audio catalog at Amazon
 | "Poetry For The Beat Generation" album [1960] by Steve Allen & Jack Kerouac
E.M.I. Europe import CD [2/2008] for $21.26 Steve Allen plays soft jazz piano while Jack Kerouac reads his poetry; 14 tracks from Allen's live tv show in 1959, originally released on vinyl; includes "October In The Railroad Earth", "Deadbelly", "Charlie Parker", "The Sounds of The Universe Coming In My Window", "One Mother", "Goofing At The Table", "Bowery Blues", "Abraham", "Dave Brubeck", "I Had A Slouch Hat Too One Time", "The Wheel of The Quivering Meat Conception", "McDougal Street Blues", "The Moon Her Majesty", and "I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous" |
CBC Radio-Canada 25-minute interview with Jack Kerouac [1967]
"Le Sel de la Semaine: Entrevue avec Jack Kerouac"
video not available; exhibited at Museum of Television & Radio January 2003
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