Jack Kerouac - On the Road

In September 1957 Viking Press, published On the Road - a novel by a little-known author Jack Kerouac. It was immediately acclaimed as a classic and made Kerouac famous overnight, leading to him being adopted as an icon of 1960s counterculture, but Kerouac did not enjoy his fame and sought solace in alcohol.

[@dwhite100]

One of the Greatest Books Writ...

[@mditt7]

he writes of a forgotten time that I want to visit and inhabit

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I wouldn't mind a trip back in the time machine too!

[@marlenechicoine4005]

He reminds me of myself, minus the novel, the fame, and the genius....yep, pretty close. 😅

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Me too!

[@youknowwhoiam2771]

The person who denounced Kerouac’s style as “typing, not writing” was actually Truman Capote most infamous for his true crime novel “In Cold Blood”

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Capote was a very different kind of writer!

[@bell9620]

Check out Robert Frank a photographer who roamed America in the 1950’s with a M3 Leica. Stunning B&W captures were put into a book called The Americans. Most definitely a recording of time here in the our country that we all should view.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I'll check it out.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

The only other author who matched Kerouac's stream of consciousness writing style was another Jack. Jack Torrance, caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, spent an entire Winter typing up his masterwork All Work and No Play Made Jack a Dull Boy

[@professorgraemeyorston]

Here's Johnny!

[@S_J_banana]

I’m currently reading it

[@everrit]

I read it liked it a lot, still have to read Big Sur. But one to watch out for is Minor Caracters by Joyce Johnson (née Glassman) his on off girlfriend.

[@professorgraemeyorston]

I haven't read that, but heard good things about it.

[@albondigas9549]

Books about nothing.I found his stuff less than entertaining.