We're ears- and eyeballs-deep in Summer of Love 40th anniversaries in San Francisco, but September marks another local birthday of import, one that's also pretty pivotal in the music world. We're ...

first met Jack Kerouac not long after my country and I split up. By that, I mean I had just moved to the United States from Colombia, where I was born and raised. I first encountered him during my ...

Jack Kerouac, along with Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Joanne Kyger, Bob Kaufman, Brion Gysin, Gary Snyder, and many more, was part of a group of writers and ...

I have a distinct memory of flipping through the pages of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) when I was around 16 years old. I was on the metro in Paris. I had heard about Kerouac from my sister and ...

It’s hard to believe that Jack Kerouac has been gone nearly a half century. In fact, this year marks a sad milestone: He has now been dead longer than he was alive. Yet Lowell’s favorite son remains a ...

Join us for a Kerouac Double Feature in O’Leary Library, Room 222. The Double Feature is presented in collaboration with the ...

“What’s your road, man? – holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road.” For Beat writer Jack Kerouac, author of the legendary novel “On the Road,” the road began and ended in Lowell.

For the March, 1979 issue of High Times, William Burroughs provided a historic memoir of America’s greatest existentialist, Jack Kerouac. In honor of the anniversary of Kerouac’s death October 21, ...

LOWELL — Jack Kerouac’s literary canon and personal legacy is beloved amongst many in Lowell, the place where Kerouac was born, where he grew up and eventually where he was buried. But even now, more ...

Jack Kennedy will always be associated with Cape Cod. Jack Kerouac, not so much. The author of “On the Road” is more closely linked to his hometown of Lowell, where he was born and raised, and where ...