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"Kerouac wanted to get out and experience something bigger..." "With all the savage irresponsibility that that comes with." Freestyle Releasing has debuted the trailer for a documentary titled Kerouac ...

My heart was beating on the hillside/Near Belvedere and Tiburon/I need to take you back, back down to ‘Frisco,” sings Van Morrison in 2016’s “In Tiburon.” In 1971, prolific ...

A multi-platinum country music singer is helping to preserve the legacy of one of America’s most iconic writers by purchasing a historic church building in Massachusetts. Grammy Award winner Zach ...

Country music star and Grammy-winner Zach Bryan purchased a historic former church in Massachusetts to help revive a project to create a new facility honoring the legacy of "On the Road" author Jack ...

Filmmaker Ebs Burnough's new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in theaters now Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road is widely regarded as a 20th century American classic, but the ...

Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...