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Jack Kerouac • 32 Items / 19 Books, 7 Articles, 1 Poem, 5 Films
On the Road (1957)
by Jack Kerouac
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Published Reviews
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    Reconsideration: A Novel of the Beat Generation (Review)
    James Atlas
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    The New Republic, November 8, 1980, pp. 24-26
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    Everything Moves, But Nothing Is Alive (Review)
    Thomas F. Curley
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    Commonweal, September 13, 1957, pp. 595-596
  3. Mid-Month Recordings
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    Kerouac's "Beat Generation" (Review)
    Ralph Gleason
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    The Saturday Review, January 11, 1958, p. 75
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    Itching Feet (Review)
    Carlos Baker
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    The Saturday Review, September 7, 1957, p. 19
  5. [+]
    A Sleepless Night with the Beat Generation (Review)
    George R. Clay
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    The Reporter, October 17, 1957, pp. 44-45
  6. Books
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    The Know-Nothing Bohemians (Review)
    Norman Podhoretz
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    The Partisan Review, Spring 1958, pp. 305-319
  7. Books & the Arts
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    Kings of the Road (2 Reviews)
    Jonah Raskin
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    2. The Road by Jack London
    The Nation, July 30, 2007, pp. 35-37
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    Fifty Years On (3 Reviews)
    Ted Gioia
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    2. On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
    3. Why Kerouac Matters by John Leland
    The Weekly Standard, September 24, 2007, pp. 46-47
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    Fiction Chronicle (4 Reviews)
    Robert Phelps
    Troubled by Innocence
    1. Lines of Life by Francois Mauriac
    2. The Transgressor by Julian Green
    3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    4. Justine by Lawrence Durrell
    National Review, September 21, 1957, p. 261
  10. [+]
    Cozzens and Others (4 Reviews)
    Benjamin De Mott
    By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens
    1. By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens
    2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    3. The Velvet Horn by Andrew Lytle
    4. On the Line by Harvey Swados
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1957, pp. 620-626
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    Adolescence and Maturity (4 Reviews)
    K.W. Gransden
    Special Friendships, by Roger Peyrefitte
    1. Special Friendships by Roger Peyrefitte
    2. The Monkey Puzzle by Veronica Hull
    3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    4. The Director by Alan Ernest Wentworth Thomas
    Encounter, August 1958, pp. 83-84
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    Pick of the Paperbacks (5 Reviews)
    On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    2. The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by W.G. Archer
    3. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
    4. The Triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
    5. The Oldest Stories in the World by Theodor H. Gaster
    The Saturday Review, October 18, 1958, p. 19
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (9 Reviews)
    Phoebe Adams
    Reader's Choice
    1. A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage by Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans
    2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    3. The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan
    4. The Battle of Cassino by Fred Majdalany
    5. The Transgressor by Julian Green
    6. The Thing Desired by Lalage Pulvertaft
    7. Voss by Patrick White
    8. Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration by C. Northcote Parkinson
    9. Yallah by Peter W. Haeberlin and Paul Bowles
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1957, pp. 178-186
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    The New Books (11 Reviews)
    Paul Pickrel
    Postrevolutionary Figures
    1. The Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Dwight Macdonald
    2. Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
    3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    4. Women, and Sometimes Men by Florida Scott-Maxwell
    5. Islam Inflamed by Jan Morris
    6. Come With Me to Macedonia by Leonard Drohan
    7. Rally Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman
    8. Sullivan by Walter Macken
    9. The Weather of February by Hollis Summers
    10. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
    11. The King Ranch by Tom Lea
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1957, pp. 88-98