" They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 1920s, ' 30s and ' 40s.

* Galatea Dunkel, in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road

In Jack Kerouac's 1955 novel, On The Road, the book's narrator Sal Paradise and other prominent character Dean Moriarty ( an alias of Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady ) encounter the Sabine River.

* September 5 – The first edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road goes on sale.

Beatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s to mid 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.

* Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, it is suggested that Jack Kerouac's Dean Moriarty ( from On the Road ) is his great-grandson, and the rivalry between the two criminals is continued by the fact that The Doctor's great-grandson is Kerouac's other creation, Doctor Sax.

Like Jack Kerouac's " spontaneous prose ", Selby's writing was often completed in a fast, stream of consciousness style, and to facilitate this he replaced his apostrophes with forward slashes "/" due to their closer proximity on his typewriter, thus allowing uninterrupted typing.

As Selby continued to work on his writing, Amiri Baraka, Selby's longtime friend, encouraged Selby to contact Sterling Lord, who at the time was Jack Kerouac's agent.

Two other of the most notable books of the 1950s, Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ) and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 ), have been the subject of much debate as to whether or not they make use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

* Tracy was mentioned in Jack Kerouac's book, " On the Road.

* Jack Kerouac's birthplace: In the Centralville section of the city at 9 Lupine Road.

The city is mentioned in Jack Kerouac's famous novel On the Road.

Allen Ginsberg's Howl ( 1956 ), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2006.

Characters based on Gaddis include " Harry Lees " in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, " Harold Sand " in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly " Bill Gray " in Don DeLillo's 1991 novel Mao II.

Allen Ginsberg set the tone of the movement in his poem Howl, a Whitmanesque work that began: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ..." Among the most representative achievements of the Beats in the novel are Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ), the chronicle of a soul-searching travel through the continent, and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ), a more experimental work structured as a series of vignettes relating, among other things, the narrator's travels and experiments with hard drugs.

However, trail mix is also mentioned in Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums as the two main characters describe their planned meals in their preparation for a hiking trip.

* Jack Kerouac's " The Dharma Bums " contains the passage: " Pretty soon we headed into another siding at a small railroad town and I figured I needed a poor-boy of Tokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara.

Zoot also played on some of Jack Kerouac's recordings.

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2006.

His mambo records and the joyous dancing they caused are described in a late chapter of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel, On the Road ( 1957 ).

Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac, one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation, and Langston Hughes, a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, having both attended the university.

On October 19, 1958 Jan & Arnie performed " The Beat That Can't Be Beat " on CBS's Jack Benny Show.

From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

Politics tended to be liberal ; with support for causes such as desegregation ( although many of the figures associated with the original Beat movement, particularly Jack Kerouac, embraced libertarian / conservative ideas ).

As a result, the books were frequently smuggled into the States, where they would prove to be a major influence on the new Beat generation of American writers ( most notably Jack Kerouac ) some of whom would adopt stylistic and thematic principles found in Miller's oeuvre.

Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation ; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.

Leslie and Frank discuss the film at length in Jack Sargeant's book Naked Lens: Beat Cinema.

Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by Jack Kerouac, jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, which was spoken by Harvey Keitel.

An alleyway between Columbus and Grant Avenues is named for Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, who once lived there and frequented the famous City Lights Bookstore on the corner of Columbus and Broadway as well as the numerous nearby bars and coffee shops.

Clint was mentioned in the 1957 autobiographical novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac, the American novelist of the Beat Generation:

Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase " Beat Generation " in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York.

Singer-songwriter Tom Waits, a Beat fan, wrote " Jack and Neal " about Kerouac and Cassady, and recorded " On the Road " ( a song written by Kerouac after finishing the novel ) with Primus.

She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Doolittle in Jumpin ' Jack Flash.

* The Who ( introduced by Jack Nicholson ) – " My Generation "/" Pinball Wizard ", " Love, Reign O ' er Me ", " Won't Get Fooled Again " ( W 20: 00 );

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America.

Later the movement of writers became known as the Beat Generation, and included works and authors as varied as Jack Kerouac ’ s On the Road ( 1957 ) and William S. Burroughs ’ s Naked Lunch ( 1959 ).

The most important and influential of this new wave of folk-protest songwriters was Bob Dylan, whose complex lyrics not only provided a commentary on contemporary social issues but on his own life experiences too and thus, paralleled the work of earlier Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

The poets of the Beat Generation, a group of American bohemian writers to emerge at the end of the 1940s that included Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, owed much to Pound and Williams, and were led, through them, to the Objectivists.

Stein referenced Jack Broom, " The J. P. Generation ," Pacific Magazine, The Seattle Times, 4 April 1993, pp. 6 – 11, 14-17 ; Bill Cartmel, " Hi Ya, Patches Pals ," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11April 1971, pp. 6 – 7 ; Erik Lacitis, " Patches Understands – and Survives ," The Seattle Times, 23 February 1978, p. A15 ; title, The East Side Journal, 31 May 1962, p. 3 ; Ibid.

In an article for the St. Petersburg Independent that year, Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac called Torre " the best catcher since Roy Campanella.

For example, using the Strauss and Howe definition, no US President has come from the Silent Generation ; the few from the generation who ran for President include: Walter Mondale, Ron Paul, John McCain, Michael Dukakis, Newt Gingrich, Ralph Nader, Jack Kemp and Rev Jesse Jackson.

" The Beat Generation " is a name coined by Jack Kerouac for the disaffected youth of America during the materialistic 1950s ; Kerouac developed ideas of automatism into what he called " spontaneous prose " to create a maximalistic, multi-novel epic called the Duluoz Legend in the mold of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

* It has been claimed that the novel impressed the Beat Generation writers in the 1960s such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.

The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.

The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.

Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City.

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Soon he dropped out of school and, inspired by the Beat Generation writers, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to travel across America in search of freedom and inspiration, he set off wearing shoulder-length hair, beard and rimless glasses hitchhiking across the country.