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From one of the most famous of the Beat writers, Kerouac’s final novel of brotherhood and travel, now reissued in a standalone edition following his centenary celebration Pic—full name Pictorial Review Jackson—is a ten-year-old Black boy living in rural North Carolina with his grandfather in the 1940s. When Pic is forced to move in with his aunt after his grandfather’s passing, his older brother Slim appears to rescue him. Together, they hit...

Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz--Kerouac's alter ego--beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II,...

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Grove is reissuing Satori in Paris following the centenary year celebrations of Kerouac’s birth with a new cover matching our new Kerouac series design.Kerouac’s centenary offers new opportunities for publicity and promotion that we will undertake in tandem with Kerouac’s other publishers. Major retrospective features have appeared in print, television, and radio. Bookstores have also hosted virtual panel conversations on Kerouac. We will cons...

A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped, adding depth to his lifework—the Duluoz Legend—and our understanding of Kerouac the man. Far from...

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One of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959, after the appearance of On the Road had made its author famous overnight. Long out of print, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, with its straight-forward narrative structure, is one of Kerouac's most accessible works. It is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of g...

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Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books -- including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans, " and "Lonesome Traveler" -- were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in "Mexico City Blues, " his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose, it roams widely across continents and cultur...

Grove is reissuing Dr. Sax following the centenary year celebrations of Kerouac’s birth with a new cover matching our new Kerouac series design. Kerouac’s centenary offers new opportunities for publicity and promotion that we will undertake in tandem with Kerouac’s other publishers. Major retrospective features are planned for print, television, and radio, with expectations to feature the stories and memories of those who knew Kerouac. Booksto...

Dieser in den USA 1965 veröffentlichte, in Teilen unter dem Titel «Engel, Kif und neue Länder» auf Deutsch publizierte und nun zum ersten Mal vollständig und in neuer Übersetzung vorliegende autobiografische Roman erzählt von einem Schlüsseljahr in Jack Kerouacs Leben - der Zeit unmittelbar vor der Veröffentlichung von «On the Road» im September 1957.    Nachdem er im Sommer 1956 zwei Monate allein als Feuerwächter auf dem Desolation Peak in ...

In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story of the years when he was writing the books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascade Mountains. Resembling his novels in its exuberant style and "jazzy impressionistic prose" (The...

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Abenteuerroman, antikonsumistisches Manifest und zugleich «nature writing» at its best. Ein Klassiker der Beat-Literatur, zu Jack Kerouacs hundertstem Geburtstag am 12.3.2022 in neuer Übersetzung. Mal als blinder Passagier auf alten Güterzügen, mal zu Fuß in dünnen Stoffschuhen ist Ray Smith (Kerouac) unterwegs durch Kalifornien - ein wenig ziellos, bis er auf Japhy (Gary Snyder), den Dichterfreund und Zen-Buddhisten, trifft. Gemeinsa...

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