Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954, (Paperback)

from Pitoucat

Kerouac began keeping journals in 1936, and continued for the rest of his life. The journals survive and editor Brinkley, writing in The Atlantic Monthly in 1998, promised us publication of "a multi-volume edition." Now it seems that all we will be getting is this 370-page book, covering only som...

from psuedosmart

I was not very familiar with Kerouac at all before I read this book. Everyone has at least some idea of who he was supposed to be, but these journals definitely give one an intimate portrait of the writer. For all of his acclaim as the revolutionary of the beat generation, he truly seems to have ...

from ironicqueery

This is an excellent collection of Jack Kerouac's journals written during the writing of his first novels, Town and Country and On the Road. Most of the focus is on the journal entries during the writing of Town and Country. It's very interesting to read about the methods and thoughts of Kerouac ...