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Kerouac, Jack

  1. Baker, Carlos. "Itching Feet." In The Saturday Review, Vol. 40, No. 36, September 7, 1957, pp. 19, 32-33.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  2. In Balakian, Nona. The Creative Present. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1963. pp. 193-212.
    Criticism -- Works -- On the Road

  3. Baro, Gene. "Restless Rebels in Search of - What?" In New York Herald Tribune Book Review, September 15, 1957, pg. 4.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  4. In Birkerts, Sven. American Energies. New York : W. Morrow, c1992. pp. 196-202.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  5. Birkerts, Sven. "On the Road to Nowhere: Kerouac, Re-Read and Regretted." In Harper's, Vol. 279, No. 1670, July, 1989, pp. 74-76.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  6. In Birkerts, Sven. Rereadings. St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c1999. pp. 241-247.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  7. In Bryant, Jeffrey. The Open Decision. New York, Free Press, 1970. pp. 223-225, plus see index.
    Criticism -- "The Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"

  8. Burns, Jim. "Kerouac and Jazz." In The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1982, pg. 33-41.
    Criticism -- Works -- Maggie Cassidy -- On the Road -- The Subterraneans

  9. Campbell, James. "Kerouac's Blues." In Antioch Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 363-371.
    Criticism -- Works

  10. Champney, Freeman. "Beat-up or Beatific?" In Antioch Review, Vol. 19, Spring 1959, pp. 115-120.
    Criticism -- The Dharma Bums

  11. Curley, Thomas. "Everything Moves, but Nothing is Alive." In Commonweal, Vol. 65, No. 24, September 13, 1957, pp. 595-597.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  12. In Dardess, George. "The Delicate Dynamics of Friendship: a Reconsideration of K's On the Road." In American Literature, Vol 46, May 1974, pp. 200-206.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  13. Dempsey, David. "In Pursuit of Kicks." In The New York Times Book Review, September 8, 1957, pg. 4.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  14. In Dickstein, Morris. Leopards in the Temple. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. pp. 95-102.
    Criticism -- Works -- On the Road

  15. In Dittman, Michael J. Masterpieces of Beat Literature. Westport, CT, Greenwood, 2007. pp. 25-56.
    Criticism -- Dharma Bums -- On the Road

  16. In Donald, Miles. The American Novel in the Twentieth Century. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978. pp. 117-121.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  17. Eburne, J.P. "Trafficking in the Void: Burroughs, Kerouac and the Consumption of Otherness." In Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 43, Spring 1997, pp. 53-92.
    Criticism -- Burroughs, William -- The Subterraneans

  18. Feldman, Irving. "Stuffed Dharma." In Commentary, Vol. 26, December 1958, ppl 543-544.
    Criticism -- The Dharma Bums

  19. In Frohock, W. M. Strangers to This Ground: Cultural Diversity in Contemporary American Writing. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, [1961]. pp. 132-147.
    Criticism -- Novels --

  20. In Fuller, Edmund. Man in Modern Fiction. New York, Random House [1958]. pp. 148-154.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  21. Gelfant, B.H. "Jack Kerouac." In Contemporary Literature, Vol. 15, 1974, pp. 415-422.
    Criticism -- Works

  22. In Ginsberg, Allen. Deliberate Prose. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2000. pp. 342-372.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Dharma Bums -- Pomes All Sizes -- Visions of Cody

  23. Ginsberg, Allen. "The Great Rememberer." In The Saturday Review, Vol 55, Dec. 72, pp. 60-63.
    Biography -- Works

  24. Gleason, Ralph. "Kerouac's 'Beat Generation'." In The Saturday Review, Vol. 49, January 11, 1958, pg. 75.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  25. Gold, Herbert. "Hip, Cool, Beat - and Frantic." In Nation, Vol. 184, November 16, 1957, pp. 349-355.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  26. Hart, J.E. "Future Hero in Paradise: Kerouac's The Dharma Bums." In Critique, Vol. 14, 3Q 1973, pp. 52-62.
    Criticism -- The Dharma Bums

  27. In Hassan, Ihab Radical innocence, studies in the contemporary American novel. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1961. pp. 293-94.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  28. Holton, Robert. "Kerouac Among the Fellahin: On the Road to the Postmodern." In Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 265-284.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  29. In Honan, Park. Authors' Lives. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1990. pp. 231-246.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Ginsberg, Allen

  30. Johnson, Ronna. "Doctor Sax: the Origins of Vision in the Duluoz Legend." In The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1983, pp. 18-24.
    Criticism -- Doctor Sax

  31. In American Fictions: 1940-1980. New York : Harper & Row, c1983. pp. 198-203, plus see index.
    Criticism -- The Dharma Bums -- On the Road

  32. Kazin, Alfred. "The Alone Generation." In Harper's, October 1959, pp. 127-131.
    Criticism -- Works

  33. Korn, Eric. "Off the Road." In The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3919, April 22, 1977, pg. 477.
    Criticism -- Doctor Sax

  34. Latham, Aaron. "Visions of Cody." In The New York Times Book Review, January 28, 1973, pp. 42-43. Criticism -- Visions of Cody

  35. In Lectures on Modern Novelists. Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Dept. of English, Pittsburgh, 1963. pp. 25-40.
    Criticism -- Works -- Doctor Sax -- Maggie Cassidy -- On the Road -- The Town and the City -- Visions of Cody

  36. Loewinsohn, Ron. "'Gentle reader, I fain would spare you this, ... .'" In Contemporary Literature, Vol. 39, No. 4, Winter 1998, pp. 560-586.
    Criticism -- Burroughs, William -- Naked Lunch -- On the Road

  37. Malcolm, D. "'Jazz America': jazz and African American culture in Jack Kerouac's On the Road." In Contemporary Literature, Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 85-110.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  38. Mazzocco, Robert. "Our Gang." In The New York Review of Books, May 20, 1965, pp. 8-9.
    Criticism -- Desolation Angels

  39. Millstein, Gilbert. "On The Road." In The New York Times Book Review, September 5, 1957, pg. 27.
    Criticism -- On the Road

  40. In Moore, Harry T., ed. Contemporary American Novelists. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [c1964]. pp. 120-133.
    Criticism -- Works -- Dharma Bums -- Maggie Cassidy -- On the Road -- The Town and the City

  41. Moore, Steven. "Old Angel Midnight; Good Blonde and Others." In The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 224-225.
    Criticism -- Good Blonde and Others -- Old Angel Midnight

  42. Mottram, Eric. "A Preface to Visions of Cody." In The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1983, pp. 50-60.
    Criticism -- Visions of Cody

  43. In Plimpton, George, ed. Writers at Work, Fourth Series. New York : Viking Press, 1976. pp. 361-402.
    Interviews

  44. In Podhoretz, Norman. Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964. pp. 143-158.
    Criticism -- Works -- On the Road -- The Subterraneans

  45. In Podhoretz, Norman. Norman Podhoretz Reader. New York : Free Press, c2004. pp. 29-40.
    Criticism -- Works -- On the Road -- The Subterraneans

  46. Ratner, Rochelle. "Pomes All Sizes." In Library Journal, Vol. 117., No. 11, June 15, 1992, pg. 79.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Pomes All Sizes

  47. Seaman, Donna. "Book of Blues." In Booklist, Vol. 92, No. 1, September 1, 1995, pg. 8.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Book of Blues

  48. Stone, Robert. "American Dreamers: Melville and Kerouac."In The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 147, No. 50999, Dec. 7, 1997, pp. 18-19.
    Criticism -- Melville, Herman -- Moby-Dick -- On the Road

  49. In Tytell, John. Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats. New York : W. Morrow, c1999. See index.
    Biography -- Criticism

  50. Tytell, John. "Revisions of Kerouac." In Partisan Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1973, pp. 301-305.
    Criticism -- Works

  51. Wakefield, Dan. "Jack Kerouac Comes Home." In The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 216, July 1965, pp. 69-72.
    Criticism -- Desolation Angels

  52. In Watson, Steven. The Birth of the Beat Generation. New York : Pantheon Books, c1995. See index.
    Biography -- Criticism

  53. Wolcott, James. "Kerouac's Lonesome Road." In Vanity Fair, No. 470, October 1999, pp. 126-132.
    Biography

  54. Woods, Crawford. "Reconsideration: Jack Kerouac." In The New Republic, Vol. 167, December 2, 1972, pp. 26-30.
    Criticism -- Works

  55. Wronsky, Gail. "Pomes All Sizes." In Antioch Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, Summer 1993, pp. 469-473.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Pomes All Sizes

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