Beatdom #22: The Jack Kerouac Special - Paperback

by David S. Wills (Author)

Beatdom #22 is devoted to the life and work of Beat author Jack Kerouac. Released on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, it contains an array of essays and interviews that celebrate his unique contributions to American literature.

CONTENTS
"The Mad Ones: How Kerouac Introduced his Generation" by David S. Wills
"Memory Babe: The French Connection" by Gerald Nicosia
"Remembering Uncle Jack: Neal and Carolyn Cassady's children look back over a lifetime at their memories of The Great Rememberer" by Ryan Mathews
"Kerouac, Germany, and the Beat Generation" by Peter Oehler
"I Think of Jack Kerouac, I Even Think of Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Bop Prosody: The New Vision and Visions of Cody" by Sasha Tamar Strelitz
"Women on the Margins in the Kerouac Legend" by Hank Kalet
"Jack Kerouac," by Karlostheunhappy
"To the Things We Can't Remember, To the Things We Can't Forget" by Westley Heine
"On the Road with Brian Hassett" by David S. Wills
"A Beat in Blackface: Jack Kerouac and the Issue of Race" by Ryan Mathews
"Jack in Ghost-Town" by Gerald Nicosia
"Off the Bus or On it," by David Monteleone
"Queering Kerouac for the Stage" by Alyssa Cokinis
"The Many Names of Jack Kerouac" by David S. Wills
"Kerouac and Myth" by Benjamin Olsen
"Where Marble Stood and Fell: Gregory Corso in Greece" by Leon Horton