Kerouac (with the author in Greenwich Village in 1957) was as unprepared as anyone else for his novel's surprise impact. Jerome Yulsman / Globe Photos One snowy January night in 1957, I found ...

The spiritually inverted radicals of the Sixties who sacralized their politics and secularized their spirituality—blame Reich and Marcuse—read Kerouac with blinders on. They only saw what they ...

Yet he’s considered one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation — and a crucial influence on the work of Jack ...