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Rachel Adams.  Hipsters and jipitecas : Literary Countercultures on Both Sides of the BorderAmerican Literary History; Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2004, pp. 58-84.

Richard Brookhiser.  The Beats Now National Review; Vol. 49, May 1997, Issue 9, p54.

Mary Patricia Carden.   'Adventures in auto-eroticism': economies of travelling masculinity in autobiographical texts by Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. Journeys, June 2006 v7 i1 p1(25).

Jonathan Paul Eburne.  Trafficking in the Void: Burroughs, Kerouac, and the Consumption of Otherness Modern Fiction Studies; Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 1997, p. 53.

Oliver Harris.  Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg. Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters.  Twentieth Century Literature; Summer2000, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p171.

Robert Genter.  "I'm Not His Father": Lionel Trilling, Allen Ginsberg, and the Contours of Literary Modernism. College Literature; 31.2, Spring 2004, pp. 22-52.

Kerouac 1952Allan Johnston.  Consumption, Addiction, Vision, Energy: Political Economies and Utopian Visions in the Writings of the Beat Generation College Literature; 32.2, Spring 2005, pp. 103-126.

Roger Kimball.  A Gospel of EmancipationNew Criterion; Oct97, Vol. 16, Issue 2, p4.

Matt Theado. Beat Generation Literary Criticism Contemporary Literature; Volume 45, Number 4, Winter 2004, p747.

Lorenzo Thomas.  'Communicating by horns': Jazz and redemption in the poetry of the Beats and the Black Arts.  African American Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, Poetry and Theatre Issue (Summer, 1992), pp. 291-298.

Allen Ginsberg

Ben Lee.  Howl and Other Poems : Is There Old Left in These New Beats?  American Literature; Volume 76, Number 2, June 2004, pp. 367-389.

Justin Quinn.  Coteries, Landscape and the Sublime in Allen Ginsberg.    Journal of Modern Literature.  Volume 27, Number 1/2, Fall 2003, p. 193.

Tony Trigilio.  "Strange Prophecies Anew": Rethinking the Politics of Matter and Spirit in Ginsberg's Kaddish.  American Literature; Volume 71, Number 4, December 1999, pp. 773-795. 

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac - A Brief Biography

Marco Abel.  Speeding Across the Rhizome: Deleuze Meets Kerouac On the Road.  Modern Fiction Studies; Volume 48, Number 2, Summer 2002, p227.

James Campbell.  Kerouac's BluesAntioch Review; Summer99, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p363.

Clark Coolidge.  KerouacAmerican Poetry Review; Jan/Feb95, Vol. 24, Issue 1, p. 43.

Tim Cresswell.  Mobility as Resistance: A Geographical Reading of Kerouac's 'On the Road.'  Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Vol. 18, No. 2 (1993), pp. 249-262.

George Dardess.  The Delicate Dynamics of Friendship: A Reconsideration of Kerouac's On The RoadAmerican Literature, Vol. 46, No. 2. (May, 1974), pp. 200-206.

Ann Douglas.  `Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement': Kerouac's Poetics of IntimacyCollege Literature, Winter2000 Special Issue, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p8.

Malcom Douglas.  "Jazz America": Jazz and African American Culture in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Contemporary Literature, Spring 1999 v40 i1 p85.

 



Craig Frischkorn. Jack Kerouac comes home to Lowell. American Theatre v11.n6 (July-August 1994): pp72.

Nancy McCampbell Grace.  A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie College Literature, Winter2000 Special Issue, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p8.

Sarah Haynes.  An Exploration of Jack Kerouac's Buddhism: Text and LifeContemporary Buddhism; Nov2005, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p153-171.

Robert Holton.  Kerouac Among the Fellahin: On the Road to the PostmodernModern Fiction Studies; Summer95, Vol. 41, Issue 2, p265.

Tim Hunt.  The Misreading of Kerouac, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. III, No. 2, Summer, 1983, pp. 29-33.

Ronna C. Johnson.  'You're putting me on': Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence College Literature, Winter2000 Special Issue, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p8.

Corey Kilgannon.  Off the Road And the Wagon, Kerouac Found Refuge on L.I.New York Times, December 31, 2006, p21.

Joseph Lelyveld.  Jack Kerouac, Novelist, Dead; Author of 'On the Road.'  New York Times, October 22, 1969.  p47. 

Ralph Lombreglia.  The Only People for HimAtlantic Monthly; Aug1996, Vol. 278, Issue 2, p88.

Carl D. Malmgren, On the Road Reconsidered: Kerouac and the Modernist Tradition.  Ball State University Forum, Vol. 30, No. 1, winter, 1989, pp. 59-67.

Erik R. Mortenson.  Beating Time: Configurations of Temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.  College Literature; Fall 2001, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p51.

Brendon Nicholls.  The Melting Pot That Boiled Over:Racial Fetishism and the Lingua Franca of Jack Kerouac's FictionModern Fiction Studies 49.3 (2003) 524-549. 

Mark Richardson. Peasant Dreams: Reading On the Road.  Texas Studies in Literature and Language; Volume 43, Number 2, Summer 2001, pp. 218

Steven W. Roberts.  San Francisco's North Beach, the Many Different Worlds and Generations Never Meet New York Times, Nov 4, 1969. p32.

Simon Rycroft.  Changing Lanes: Textuality off and on the RoadTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers,   New Series, Vol. 21, No. 2 (1996), pp. 425-428.

Andrew Sarris.  More Babbitt than Beatnik.  New York Times, February 26, 1967.  p.BR3.

David Sterritt.  Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque period of The Three Stooges. Mosaic, Dec 1998 v31 i4 p83(1).

Regina Weinreich.  The Sound of Despair: A Perfected Nonlinearity. The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac: A Study of the Fiction, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987, pp. 89-118.

Steve Wilson. "Buddha Writing": The Author and the Search for Authenticity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and The Subterraneans.  The Midwest Quarterly, Spring 1999 v40 i3 p302(1).