Digital Beats: Jack Kerouac: Poems & Presentations

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Kerouac Reflections

UML Library

Kerouac Lowell

Calendar, '07

Jack & Stella Kerouac

Center for American Studies

Kerouac in Lowell

On the Road in Lowell: An Exhibition of Kerouac's Scroll Manuscript

Kerouac's Lowell Places: A Guide, Center for Lowell History

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Jack Kerouac's Lowell

UML: Kerouac to Receive Honorary Degree, June 2007

"On the Road and Jack Kerouac still inspire young and old," Associated Press, report from Lowell, International Herald Tribune, August 30, 2007.

Poems & Presentations - Audio Selections

	"Is There a Beat Generation?," Forum sponsored by Brandeis University, Hunter College Playhouse, 11/6/1958. (12:00)
	Poems (Fragments): "San Francisco," "Street Scene," "Money Honey," "Westinghouse Elevators," "Old Age," "Praised Be Man," recorded May 13, 1959 (Verve Records, 1960). (3:17)
	"The Beat Generation," recorded May 13, 1959 (Verve Records, 1960) (3:09)
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Interviews and Appearances: Video Selections

Kerouac interviewed in French with English subtitles, 3/7/1967
Kerouac on William F. Buckley's Firing Line, Fall 1968
Interview of Jan Kerouac (clips from What Happened to Kerouac?)

Remembering Kerouac (clips from The Source)

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Selected Web Resources

Jack Kerouac interviewed by Ted Berrigan in the Paris Review, No. 43, Summer 1968. (PDF)
Barry Miles, Chapter One, Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats: A Portrait (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).
"Jack Kerouac's On the Road," Present at the Creation, NPR (2002).
More Than Minor Characters: Women of the Beat.
The Beat Generation: Audio and Video Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries.

Louis Mendan, "Drive, He Wrote: What the Beats Were About," The New Yorker, October 1, 2007.
Jon Clellon Holmes, "This Is the Beat Generation," New York Times Magazine, November 16, 1962.
"On the Road Again: Friends & Scholars Remember Jack Kerouac," compiled by Megan O'Rourke, Slate Magazine, September 4, 2007.

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Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies at UMass Lowell

Beat Literature Conference - History

Kerouac Conference, 2007

Internet Public Library

New York Times Featured Author: Jack Kerouac

For more information, please contact

Hilary Holladay, Director, Jack & Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies at UMass Lowell

Paul Marion, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Outreach at UMass Lowell

Site Contacts

Susan E. Gallagher, Library Fellow

Cheryl Gray, Provost's Office

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