Henry Carter Hull

Presents over sixty previously unpublished works written by Jack Kerouac between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, before he achieved fame as a Beat generation author.

Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...

One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up.

Chronicles the life of Jack Kerouac and discusses his writing, his personal and professional life, and his friendship with his editor.

Fleeing a scandal that tarnished her Brahmin family, Charulata arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani three weeks before her twenty-first birthday in 1974, where she begins teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls, but, while the school brings about opportunities for new cultural experiences, Charu finds herself implicated in a murder investigation.

Chronicles the lives of poets and novelists, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others drawing connections between their unique brand of literature.

Examines the post-Victorian bohemians whose artistic, liberal lifestyle flourished in Greenwich Village until the First World War.

A compendium of words and images by and about writers and artists of America's Beat Generation, including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, and Jack Kerouac.

With a foreword by Lou Reed: The definitive oral history of Max's Kansas City, favorite hangout of the most outrageous and notorious characters of New York's 1960s and '70s underground cultural scene From its opening in December 1965 on Park Avenue South, Max's Kansas City, a hybrid restaurant, bar, nightclub, and art gallery, was the boisterous meeting spot for famous-or soon-to-be-famous-figures in New York's underground art, music, literary, film,...

"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name...