Neal Cassady inspired Jack Kerouac in other ... Kerouac found Cassady’s rambling, stream-of-consciousness style absolutely brilliant. “It was the greatest piece of writing I ever saw ...

The spiritually inverted radicals of the Sixties who sacralized their politics and secularized their spirituality—blame Reich and Marcuse—read Kerouac with blinders on. They only saw what they ...

Just a few months before I met Kerouac, my boss at the agency had given me the task of clearing her shelves of books by former clients. One book destined for the Salvation Army pile was Jack's ...