"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 ...

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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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

LOWELL — The city of Lowell will once again celebrate its most famous homegrown author this week with the 36th annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival starting Thursday afternoon The annual ...

'The road' is a long-travelled concept. The protagonist – and often, antagonist – in many movies, including Little Miss Sunshine, Nomadland, and most recently Will & Harper, is that stretch of asphalt ...