Jack Kerouac shooting pool (1967)

Beat writer Jack Kerouac shooting pool at the Pawtucketville Social Club, Lowell, Mass., in early 1967.

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[sanchez64]

@DaniboyBR2 I've read all his books mate, even the poetry and a couple of biographies. Try to read them in order of publishing release as they sort of follow on from each other and you get an idea how his life was changing. I think Big Sur is my next favourite after On The Road but they are all excellent. Subteraraneans, Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels........so many great books, I might read them again!

[lupine22]

@sanchez64 Yes, you could read them in the order they were released, or else you could read them in the order of his intended Duluoz Legend, which traces his life story in chronological order. So, you'd start with Visions of Gerard, then Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Vanity of Duluoz, On the Road, Visions of Cody, Subterraneans, Tristessa, Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, Big Sur, Satori in Paris.

[filmerado]

@lupine22 In between Doc Sax & Maggie Cassidy (more or less) would be The Town and the City

[lupine22]

@filmerado  Yes - except that The Town & the City (his first published novel) was more fictional than the others. It overlapped events covered in Visions of Gerard, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, and Vanity of Duluoz, and finished with the main character about to set out on the road ...

[npspec34]

Well, he was a full blown alcie by 1967,

and the America he wrote about in "On the Road"

was a 1940's country that was gone

by 1957 when the book came out.

How would a film capture an

America

that is not there?

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

This is a wonderful presentation of Kerouac; The Hustler of Poetry!

[Misterrize]

thank you youhavegeniusshins, I haven't seen that poem since college. Gwendolyn Brooks. Good stuff. Find some Langston Hughes, More good stuff

[HumaneAnon]

The mere idea that not long ago people talked like this is hilarious. That trans-atlantic voice was used so much in radio, tv and the news of the day. Now if you do that voice people think your a twit poser. Shit just got real ^_^

[MrCaioliz]

I'd like met him and I didn't read all his books until,I'm the only ´person in the earth I guess,that thinks ''Book Odf Dreams'' is one of his master-pieces for have captured the spirit of his soul ainside his dreams and like he said''whatis the life :?if not a big and a strange dream''.Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac.I feel sorry for the movie.

[youhavegeniusshins]

@Jonannellejul Mmhm.

[Jonannellejul]

@youhavegeniusshins Gwendolyn

[rupertwalker]

Just realised that Passion Pit sample this in their song "Sleepy Head".

[kuso1426]

@drfitzenstein Where can i hear this conversation!

[youhavegeniusshins]

@deschenes108 We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz June. We die soon.

[vincikd007bg008]

first time hearing jack kerouac those last few lines ''the beat'' very onomatopoeic with a crucial element, rhythm, conveying a sense of a slave generation slaves to the beat. Very impressive look forward to hearing more. thanks for uploading.