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Jack Kerouac nest to a tree       on page one:
Profile
Major Works
Other Works
Links

on page two:
Poems, Letters, Journals
Works About Jack

here on page three:
Works by Family & Friends
VideosOther Media



Works by Family & Friends

Edie Kerouac-Parker's Life With Jack Kerouac   "You'll Be Okay: My Life With Jack Kerouac" [2007]  
by Edie Kerouac-Parker, Edited by Timothy Moran & Bill Morgan

City Lights Books pb [9/2007] for $10.17
Nobody's Wife   "Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck & The King of The Beats"
[2000] by Joan Haverty Kerouac

Creative Arts 9x6 pb [8/2000] for $14.95
Illustrated   "Jack Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography" [1999]
by David Sandison & Carolyn Cassady

Chicago Review Press 11x8¼ hardcover
[10/99] for $17.47
Off The Road   "Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg" [1990]
a memoir by Carolyn Cassady

Penguin 8½x5½ pb [8/91] for $10.47
Wm. Morrow 9½x6½ hardcover [7/90] out of print/used
Trainsong   "Trainsong" [1988 sequel to 'Baby Driver']
by Jan Kerouac

Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/98] for $11.16
Henry Holt pb [4/89] out of print/used
Henry Holt hardcover [2/88] out of print/used
Minor Characters   "Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming-Of-Age In The Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac" [1983]
memoir by Joyce Glassman Johnson

Penguin 7¾x5 pb [7/99] for $10.50
Baby Driver   "Baby Driver" [1981] by Jan Kerouac
Thunder's Mouth Press 8.2x5½ pb [4/98] for $11.16
Henry Holt pb [3/99] out of print/used
St. Martin hardcover [9/81] out of print/used
Heart Beat   "Heart Beat: My Life With Jack & Neal" [1976]
by Carolyn Cassady

Creative Arts pb [7/76] out of print/used

"Heart Beat" feature film [Orion 1980]
Directed by John Byrum; starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek & John Heard
Warner color VHS [1/93] for $19.99
full credits from IMDb




Fiction About Jack
and-or The Beats

Go   "Go" [1952] by John Clellon Holmes
generally acknowledged as the first published Beat novel
Thunder's Mouth Press pb [10/2002] for $11.17
Thunder's Mouth 8x5¼ pb [10/97] out of print/used
Thunder's Mouth hardcover [10/88] out of print/used
NAL Trade pb [10/80] out of print/used

Ghost   "Kerouac's Ghost" [1996]
by Kenneth McGoogan

Robert Davies Publg 8½x5½ pb [10/96] for $12.99
Avatar   "Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel" [Oct 2001]
by Chuck Rosenthal

a novel written 'in the voice of Jack Kerouac'
Hollyridge Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2001] for $16.76





Videos & DVDs

Francis Ford Coppola's "On The Road" project
[American Zoetrope/United Artists for release in 2009?]
to be directed by Walter Salles; latest status from IMDb

Kerouac's Big Sur documentary film  "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur" [indep 2008?]  
A documentary look at the summer of 1960, when Jack Kerouac retreated to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's remote cabin in the wilds of Big Sur, a time that formed the basis for Kerouac's 1962 novel "Big Sur". Co-produced & directed by Curt Worden; featuring Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, David Amram, Sterling Lord, Michael McClure, Carolyn Cassady, John Allen Cassady, Jami Cassady, Donal Logue, Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Robert Hunter, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, John Ventimiglia, S.E. Hinton, Aram Saroyan, Amber Tamblyn, Erik Bauersfeld, Dar Williams, Diamond Dave Whitaker, Benjamin Gibbard, Jay Farrar, Sage Francis, Brenda Knight, Jack Hirschman, Dana Godbe, Herbert Gold, John Tytell, Bill Morgan & Paul Marion
video/DVD not yet available; not listed at IMDb; official movie site

Neal Cassady movie   "Neal Cassady" [independent 2008?]  
Written & directed by Noah Buschel; starring Tate Donovan {as Neal Cassady}, Glenn Fitzgerald {as Kerouac}, Chris Bauer {as Ken Kesey}, Amy Ryan, Yehuda Duenyas {as Allen Ginsberg}, Hanna Hall, Josh Hamilton, Brendan Sexton III, Liza Weil, Merritt Wever, Stephen Adly Guirgis & Paz de la Huerta
video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb

Beat Angel / Spirit of Kerouac  
"Beat Angel: The Spirit of Kerouac" [indep 2006]
Directed by Randy Allred; starring: Vincent Balestri, Frank Tabbita, Lisa Niemi & Amy Humphrey
self-published color DVD [10/2006] for $24.95
official filmsite
Finding Jack Kerouac video   "Finding Jack Kerouac" [indep 2002]
Written & directed by Jeff Lyon; starring Randall Sims, Christopher Lapish & Noelle Manuel
order DVD [10/2005] via FilmBaby for $15.99
credits at IMDb; official movie website

"Book of The Blues" [2001 short]
Adapted {from "San Francisco Blues"} & directed by Lochlan Shelfer
video not available; credits at IMDb

Antonelli documentary   "On The Road with Jack Kerouac" [1990]
also known as "Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats"
Produced & directed by John Antonelli
Goldhil Media color DVD [4/2003] for $22.46
Goldhil Media color VHS [11/2001] for $19.95
Active Home Video VHS [6/90] out of stock/used
1988 movie   "Jack Kerouac's Road: A Franco-American Odyssey" [1988]
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
Kultur Video color VHS [7/99] for $19.95
full credits from IMDb
What Happened To Kerouac 1985 movie   "What Happened To Kerouac?" [1985 documentary]
Initial concept by Malcolm Hart; co-produced & co-directed by Lewis MacAdams, co-directed by Richard Lerner
Sony b&w/color DVD [8/2003] for $13.99
Winstar VHS [9/98] out of stock/used
full credits from IMDb
Kerouac 1984 movie   "Kerouac, The Movie" [1984]
Produced, co-written & directed by John Antonelli
Mystic Fire b&w/color VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb
11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99
"Jack Kerouac's America" [1984]
Produced & directed by John Antonelli

"The Subterraneans" [June 1960]
Directed by Ranald MacDougall; starring George Peppard
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

Pull My Daisy 1959 movie   "Pull My Daisy" [1958]
Written by Jack Kerouac; directed by Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie; narration by Jack Kerouac, starring Ginsberg, Corso & Orlovsky
VHS video available for $39.95 online from Fog City
full credits from IMDb
"I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous:
Jack Kerouac & His Legacy" [year unknown]
video not available; credits from IMDb





Other Media

Kerouac audio catalog at Amazon.com

Orpheus   "Orpheus Emerged" [written 1945, publd 2000]
iBooks hardcover & CD-ROM [3/2002] for $16.80
LiveReads MS Reader ebook [12/2000] for $4.95
LiveReads Adobe Acrobat ebook [3/2001] for $4.95

BooksOnTape UNABR audio [12/2000] for $14.36
BooksOnTape audio CD [12/2000] for $15.96

Jack Kerouac Reads CD  
Jack Kerouac Reads 'OnThe Road' CD [1999]
actually a 28-minute portion, plus other readings & Jack singing!
RykoDisk audio CD [9/99] for $11.98
kicks joy darkness   "Kerouac: kicks joy darkness" [1997]
readings of Jack's poetry by himself, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Michael Stipe, Eddie Vetter, Steven Tyler, Lydia Lunch & others
Rykodisc audio CD [4/97] for $11.98
Readings CD  
"Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation" [1997]
PolyGram/Verve audio CD [9/97] for $14.98
Romnibus   "Jack Kerouac ROMnibus" CDROM [1995]
Penguin book & CD-ROM [10/95] for $51.94
JK Collection   "The Jack Kerouac Collection" [1990]
Rhino audio CD [6/90] 3 disks for $49.98
Rhino audio CD [6/90] for $51.97
Rhino UNABR audio [1/98] 4 tapes / out of stock/used
Rhino ABR audio [6/90] out of stock/used

CBC Radio-Canada 25-minute interview with Jack Kerouac [1967]
"Le Sel de la Semaine: Entrevue avec Jack Kerouac"
video not available; exhibited at Museum of Television & Radio January 2003



Online sales in association with  Kerouac catalog at Amazon.com

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Page 2: Poems, Letters, Journals | Works About Jack
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