Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
In the smoky, jazz-filled underground of 1950s San Francisco, a Beat writer deals with a short, passionate affair that shatters his ideas about love, race, and the power of his writing.
A raw, stream-of-consciousness journey through a Beat Generation poet's spiritual and carnal wanderings, as he grapples with fame, faith, and enlightenment from San Francisco to a solitary fire tower.
In a New England mill town, Maggie Cassidy paints a bittersweet, accessible portrait of adolescent love and the awkward, joyful pangs of growing up in America.
Kerouac's "Visions of Cody" is a jazz-infused portrait of Neal Cassady, a wild, motherless hustler whose spirit and car-stealing adventures defined a generation's search for freedom on the American road.
In the working-class streets of Lowell, a young French-Canadian boy's imagination creates the mysterious Dr. Sax, a guide through adolescent fears and apocalyptic dreams.
