Jack Kerouac: Life On The Road

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Source/Further reading:
Britannica, full biography: www.britannica...
Biography, overview: www.biography....
Vanity Fair, Kerouac Unbound: www.vanityfair...
Paris Review, the Queer Crime that Launched the Beats: www.theparisre...
Irish Times, Kerouac’s Catholicism: www.irishtimes...
LA Review of Books, review of Kerouac biography: lareviewofbook...
Third Way, interesting article analyzing Kerouac purely through the lens of Catholicism: thirdway.hymns...
Neal Cassady: www.theguardia...
Kerouac’s last days: archive.nytime...
Sea is my Brother review: lareviewofbook...
Did Kerouac sustain a serious head injury? www.newyorker....
When Kerouac met Kesey: theamericansch...

[@Biographics]

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[@Hector-zd8pe]

Can you do a Biographic episode about Jack Kevorkian “Dr.Death” “Dr.Life”

[@leighpowell1062]

Could you do a biography of David Lloyd George please

[@brianmayer2153]

@@leighpowell1062 I second this

[@brianmayer2153]

Here is an idea James Cook

[@skizzy3672]

No

[@walterfechter8080]

My uncle graduated high school in 1957. He was bound for college, but; like so many young people (then and now) he wanted to travel. My uncle had read "On the Road" in December 1957. By Spring of 1958, he had saved enough money to buy a then brand-new Harley and to cover traveling expenses. He also worked along the way to California. Years later; on the night I graduated high school; my uncle handed me a battered and dog-eared copy of "On the Road." After giving me his copy of "On the Road," my uncle said to me, "The Bible and this book are the only road maps you'll need -- go West until you meet the Pacific, as I did." Thank you, Jack Kerouac. Special thanks to my uncle.

[@swymaj02]

"It's often at our lowest point that we turn to new things" That definitely stood out to me, especially since the last two months were up and down for me mentally and emotionally.

[@arejayheix]

He was one of the three people that genuinely changed and affected my entire life.

[@mrsx7944]

How so?

[@bolobuddy6702]

Who were the others

[@acousticmotorbike2118]

The other 2 were?

[@OzyMandias13]

This merely the recitation of a hipster mantra.

[@theadvocate4698]

His books had a major impact in my life, as a Québecois, a man living in america....i went to Lowell to try to find a link when i was in my 20's....i still think of him almost every days...he had something....His books filled my younger self with meanings....he lighted something in me....Salut Jack!

[@marknewton6984]

Met him in a Florida bookstore in '68. Henry Miller section. Introduced myself. Then ran. I was young. 😎

[@ethanramos4441]

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry” Jack Kerouac

[@Motown222]

Behind every smile is a row of teeth -Jack Kerouac

[@paulmatters2641]

Sure. He lived with his mother. LOL

[@ianstradian]

After writing Desolation Angels Jack was supposed to meet Henry Miller but he never left the bar he was in to go to that meeting. The world missed a great story that night.

[@ashandwit]

O that's too bad. I imagine Miller might be the empathetic sort who would help someone who had lost their way.

[@jameskohlermusic]

They did meet.

[@ianstradian]

@@jameskohlermusic but the night I am speaking of would have changed Jacks life I think. It might have sparked something in Jack that would have kept him from going down the road he went.

[@joseybryant7577]

Nah, a better literary meeting is when Proust met Joyce. They both admitted they'd never read each others work, and then talked about their illnesses.

[@ashandwit]

@@joseybryant7577 I think they are both worthy events, given their members, and times.

[@Wrz2e]

I read On the Road in my early 20s and I'll never forget the feeling of joie de vivre it gave me. It encapsulates the spirit of youth and the sheer excitement of life.

[@geniferprice8596]

I felt the same when I read it all those years ago. I revisited it again in my 40s and I felt very different. I read the pointlessness of it, how they were doing drugs with their kids running around, then abandoned those kids. I became a mum not long after I read and was so inspired by On the Road, ironically. I even went on to date a jazz musician and decided I hated jazz. I can appreciate the Spirit of the book tho, and the Way Kerouac wrote it is inspiring!

[@Wrz2e]

@@geniferprice8596 good point. I may have to give it a re-read with the benefit of my advanced years haha

[@SandfordSmythe]

@@geniferprice8596 It has different impressions at different ages.

[@ImCarolB]

People who feel like that about this book are almost always men.

[@Wrz2e]

@@ImCarolB I am indeed but I would be keen to hear the female perspective on the book?

[@TheWebkilroy314]

I'm so glad you covered Kerouac. A personal favorite of mine. I love weird writers.

[@excelsior999]

Is there any other kind?

[@90RiderLow]

@@excelsior999 SellOuts ?

[@SirBlackReeds]

Fun fact: he hated beatniks, the very generation he created, because they took the wrong message from his novel. I hope Allen Ginsburg is the subject of a video in the near future. Freud would have loved for him sit in his chair.

[@naturefrc3986]

Freud was more suitable to be sitting in that chair

[@treyheller6276]

What was the wrong message, and what was the right (according to him)?

[@mrsx7944]

@Jessica Jujubean I can believe that.

[@mrsx7944]

@@treyheller6276 Kerouac was more conservative and spiritual than that generation gave him credit for.. they treated him like he was some sort of "outlaw" bad@ss. He never saw himself that way.

[@mrsx7944]

@Jessica Jujubean I can definitely believe all of that. Every interview I've ever seen of him he seems really . . . off. Not all there.

[@subnormality5854]

"On the Road" is one of those books that people who haven't read it, and don't know the backstory, feel they completely understand and can relate to, based wholly on the inside-cover blurb that they read in high school while trying to cobble together a book report at 3AM.

[@michaelfritts6249]

Cliffs Notes got many of us through assigned High School reading. No doubt! It took a t-shirt that I saw and bought from a quirky novelty store at Pike Place Market.. white with a simple statement: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.. -Jack Kerouac Good stuff.. I prefer Twain. I just prefer laughing at our existence.. But yes, his is a popular name to drop into a conversation and quickly exchanged for a lively discussion about Dr. Seuss.. Be Well!! 😃

[@HenryoShelton]

You did not! I literally searched for this video a few days ago, as i’m really into his books right now. You’re the best Simon!

[@GrxndDxD]

😂😂😂 Great Comment

[@kirkseltzer4899]

Read subterraneans and Tritessa

[@chrischambers8079]

Literally 😂

[@Motown222]

Jack finds his people

[@DeborahElizabethFinn]

Greetings from Massachusetts. "Lowell" more or less rhymes with "bowl." It should not be confused with the community of people who speak Laotian.

[@donkeyslayer4661]

I went to Lowell, Asked a mail carrier about an address. All she would say is "Dunno, Dunno". I believe that was the extent of her English.

[@DeborahElizabethFinn]

By the way, there is actually a thriving Lao-American community in Lowell, Massachusetts.

[@jordanwolfcastle7387]

We call it bowell

[@EricJKuhns]

I liked On The Road, but Dharma Bums will always be my favorite novel from Kerouac. I remember reading it in my early 20's and it changed my life at the time. Now living in Denver, it's cool to visit the same places Jack visited.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:25 - Chapter 1 - Faith & family 4:15 - Chapter 2 - New york blues 6:45 - Chapter 3 - On the road 10:00 - Mid roll ads 11:20 - Chapter 4 - The scroll 14:25 - Chapter 5 - Lonesome traveller 17:50 - Chapter 6 - Decline & fall

[@tendaivushe7264]

Thank you

[@mikefannon6994]

I first read "On the Road" at age 17, a few months before Kerouac died. That book and Dylan's music changed my life. RIP Saint Jack.

[@mrsx7944]

I see a lot of ppl that say that. I'm curious how did the book change your life?

[@mikefannon6994]

Mrs. X, thanks for your question. Will try to shorten a long story. In1969, two weeks after high school graduation, I entered a large state university, experiencing my first taste of freedom and escape from my loving but repressive Southern Baptist family. There at age 17 read "On the Road." Led to Ginsberg, Henry Miller, many more. Caught up in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the time, also inspired by Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and having little money, began travelling by thumb. Hitchhiking was common and fairly safe in those days. Met all kinds of people, made lots of friends, had several adventures. Years later, married with a daughter, after working all kinds of jobs, finally worked my way to the profession that suited me: on-the-road salesman. Customers became friends, traveled hundreds of miles each week, came home weekends. With a large measure of independence, traveled 3 states, visiting my friends, enjoying the seasons, making a good living. Retired now, enjoying nature from my back porch, reading Kerouac again.

[@mooselord2838]

Could you please do a biographics of my hero and legendary sir David Attenborough.

[@mooselord2838]

@Sebres Ludolf and you are a legend for saying that 👌

[@mooselord2838]

@Sebres Ludolf same! My dad brought me the life on earth documentary on VHS when I was like 7 or something and I watched it back to back for like 3 days. It completely blew me away. The footage was incredible but it was Attenborough's passion and love for what he was narrating that brought it all together. I'm now 33 and my collection of Attenborough DVDs and VHS is nearly twice the hight of me when piled up 😂. My 8 year old daughter loves him aswell.

[@Nathan-ng1jt]

I concur.

[@cwilliams9587]

Oh that'd be fantastic!!!

[@jevinday]

That would be awesome! One on Richard as well would also be very much enjoyed.

[@dantewolfguitar]

Kerouac changed my life, I've been travelling for 6 years now thanks to his work. "nowhere to go but everywhere, so keep on rolling under the stars"

[@mrsx7944]

But soon you will have to put down roots and start a home for yourself. Find a good woman to civilize you. Or maybe not. . . 😉

[@90RiderLow]

there are some poets around here

[@90RiderLow]

& who will civilise the broads

[@parsleypalace3272]

Thank you for this. I live near Lowell and have taken part in Kerouac weekends there. It makes me remember a great but fragile soul.

[@apeiceofgarbage9848]

The second I read this title my brain just went, "Hit the road Jack, and dont come back. No more, no more, no more, no more."

[@dudepool7530]

And now it's stuck in my head lmao.

[@nineteenfortyeight6762]

Indeed

[@dudepool7530]

@@nineteenfortyeight6762 Teal'c? Is that you buddy?

[@nineteenfortyeight6762]

@@dudepool7530 nopes! 🤷‍♀️

[@dudepool7530]

@@nineteenfortyeight6762 damnit... I guess I have too high hopes that the S.G.C. is real...

[@TheSilver19991]

Funny coincidence im literally in the middle of reading this book and reading up about all the beat characters. Interesting to see the contrast of how these people lived during their travels vs the lasting effects afterwards

[@jakemisskelley]

Read electric acid kool aide test. Next. OTR follows neil cassidy “dean” 1940s-1950s. EAKT features cassidy at the center of a second counterculture in 60s.

[@SandfordSmythe]

@@salmonsandwich3183 Shot his wife dead, and bribed the local Mexican authorities to get off charges.

[@jakeweber1115]

Please make a biography on William Burroughs his life was insane!

[@WowUrFcknHxC]

He needs to do all the Beats. Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc.

[@courtesyofdickboak]

Burroughs was a cold blooded murderer and woman abuser. Even worse he was a mediocre writer

[@jakeweber1115]

Exactly ; )

[@marquartdoty867]

@@courtesyofdickboak hahaha loved this comment

[@DMJoeBing]

Steinbeck, Kerouac, and Thompson. Their writings on traveling the open road, especially about the Pacific Coast Highway area south of San Francisco, continues to inspire to this day. The Big 3 of 20th Century Americana writing.

[@davidoreilly7328]

I first heard of Jack Kerouac from Tom Waits, and my god, this man is a wordsmith

[@janeewalker]

Author Paul Maher Jr. has written biographies of Jack Kerouac and Tom Waits.

[@hanglee5586]

Can u do one on Robert Pirsig, the author of the next iconic book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?

[@stevegoodson9022]

Sorry to be pedantic but it's Robert M. Pirsig. Also be good to get some background on his writing of 'Lila, an inquiry into morals', a very odd book, in my opinion.

[@djquinn11]

Great book.

[@garydtroll]

Good book

[@endrawes0]

Amazing book

[@dharmabum1230]

My name is my favorite Kerouac novel. Love that he did him!

[@alexcastro7339]

I was in a rock band for a while called Dharma Bums

[@jackaloopt]

I’ve watched many of your videos and this one really was one of your best work. Thank you.

[@joseybryant7577]

I've seen the On The Road scroll, it is definitely a sight to behold!

[@mrsx7944]

Where did you see it?

[@ashandwit]

LOVE "Dharma Bums". I visited Lowell (L O well), in the early 1990's, just to see the Kerouac monuments.

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

King Crimson's "Neal, Jack and Me" is about Cassady and Kerouac and a Studebaker Coupe.

[@janeewalker]

NEAL CASSADY

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

Thanks for the correction. I fixed the comment.@@janeewalker

[@erichshuler3167]

These are so damn good! Do you have a staff of writers/researchers? I love these biographies!

[@Biographics]

Hi Erich! Yes, we do! You can find the writer in the end credits. Our writers are responsible for doing their research and providing their resource which are found in the SHOW MORE section.

[@alphavirgo9154]

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[@dylanreece7991]

He also wrote On the Road on a ton of speed.

[@mrsx7944]

I can believe that. A lot of it seems like the ramblings of someone very high.

[@malcolmarchibald6356]

Saved this one for tomorrow. Kerouac was my favourite of the Beat Generation when I was younger. Gotta hit the sack, but 'Thanks for this.'

[@jeffreyhunt1727]

One major thing that was left out - "On The Road" was also made possible by the use of large quantities of amphetamines sustained over a period of several weeks. It's perhaps the main reason why the story was written like one continuous stream of consciousness. It's because he sat at his typewriter for several hours at a time, uninterrupted, hacking it out in several day-long sessions of typewriting, on speed the entire time. He definitely paid the price for it, though, as it took a significant negative toll on his physical health, and presumably on his mental health too. I'm not trying to glamorize drugs. Amphetamines can be very dangerous and potentially deadly in the wrong hands and/or the wrong situations. But it's an essential part of his story.

[@andrewmcintyre9722]

My lord.....it's Lowell. It rhymes with mole.

[@larrygrecko921]

‘High on Crack street in Lowell MA .’

[@christinacascadilla4473]

Darn...you got so close to mentioning the Hotel Chelsea. That’s where the Kerouac/Vidal encounter occurred. And trust me...it was more like Vidal convincing Kerouac to have the encounter. I’m sure he got Jack good and drunk.

[@deke441]

“I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.” JK

[@richardsantanna5398]

It's no surprise he died at 47.

[@deke441]

@@richardsantanna5398 Would have been better off with apple pie than the booze though.

[@mangrove]

@@deke441 If you watch his appearances on William Buckley's program, you can see how sick he was.

[@SandfordSmythe]

@@deke441 His liver failed and blocked blood flow around his throat. This back-up burst the blood vessels there, and he bled to death, with blood pouring out of his throat. The end of Ti Jean.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

Alcoholics flare out quick

[@sandrabonner8208]

"On the Road" and "Dharma Bums" are two of my favorite works.

[@marknewton6984]

Both cool! 😎

[@nathannakonieczny1343]

I suggested this years ago. Thank you biographics, I'm sure it wasn't just for me but this is awesome.

[@kittyblackwood5459]

Simon, I'm gonna be the Masshole that corrects you. The city is Low-ell MA, as in you feel low and add ell. Other than that brilliant job

[@nhmikey1]

We know Mass holes well. I'm from New Hampshire

[@Rufrky]

I have a suggestion for a video, The Stolen Tank Rampage of San Diego 1995 which was commited by Shawn Timothy Nelson.

[@bargepoled]

I wrote my University thesis on the Beat Generation. I'd argue his best book isn't On the Road but Dharma Bums.. It encompasses the beat vision much more succinctly than OTR. Whats not mentioned in this video is his huge benzedrine use while he was writing OTR. It wasn't just coffee that fueled him... 😂😂 Heads up to Carolyn Cassady and her book Off the Road - the real truth behind Kerouac and Neal Cassady's relationship. (violence, extreme mysogonistic tendancies, alcoholism).

[@mangrove]

Same! My uni advisor and I shared a love of Beat and road literature. I'd email observations that I had about Kerouac/ Road years later.

[@coyotehinderstein37]

I'm 20 now i read Electric Koolaid acid test when I was 15 shortly after I first tried lsd, than one flew over the cuckoos nest a short time later, and my grandpa one of the beat generation told about on the road and I finally read it last year, and it not only showed me how every perspective every influence on and in the world is interesting and unique, it showed me a form of writing and a culture I could very much get down with, all these people and ideas and movies they watch it all became so much more interesting, gave me hope to branch out beyond my little society to find others everywhere. things today seems different more tight ass more categorized at least it had to me only what I've come to realize is that the beatnik adventure is still accessible and their to anyone willing to push past their niche and find it. I don't think it'll ever be the same but I don't want it to cause even better it'll always be different and that's where lies fear and hope, the thrills that bleed into adventure and freedom. Just using myself and my perspective as an example for any other who may feel walled into their societal niche like the judgement of your few peers surrounding you cascades into all others that society is not an IT, that is their is no singular society but a fluid thing an ocean with waves that go off in all directions and meaning to be derived shifting perspectives that can sink or rise with the ebb and flow of its tides, and infect influence them, create more. Today the internet gives us unprecedented access to all variety of opinions and easy to see just a word or two and in common and categorize them in strict groups to pass over as a means of saving time that never seems to change, but I just wanna say to embrace the chance of uncertainty, to waste some of that precious nothing time, and create space for more to see more to learn and hope for that's an opportunity right there in front of you and anyone can take hold and be cast out into infinite ocean, you just gotta dig it.

[@robertschott9715]

You ought to do a video on the greatest musician that you never heard of, Flaco Jimenez. He plays the accordian. He has won 6 Emmies, countless other awards, played with the likes of The Rolling Stones, member of the Texas Tornadoes, Countless lifetime achievement awards and honorary degrees. Considering that he is a virtuoso playing the accordian, an instrument quickly going the way of the lyre and harpsichord. I actually got to meet him and spend a few hours with him. He's a great story teller. He is reserved and respectful. If you want to see his performances there are videos of him performing on Austin City Limits. I really believe that he is perfect for your biographos channel

[@alexusbratva878]

Before I watch this, I want to say, _On The Road_ a 2/3 year period of Kerouac's life, was supposedly written in 6 days while he was on *speed* ...so awesome

[@stella-vu8vh]

Yeah that happens, i'm surprised it didn't turn into incoherent nonsense and word salad towards the end of the six days. That's a long time to stay awake

[@u.sonomabeach6528]

Actually he wrote it in 3 weeks and he was on the road for 7 years. To back this up you can hear Jack explain it himself if you search his appearance on the Steve Allen show where he is interviewed by Allen before reading from On the Road. Steve Allen, after Jack explains he wrote it in 3 weeks after being on the road 7 years, quips, 'I was once on the road for 3 weeks and it took me 7 years to write about it. Sort of the other way around'....

[@alexusbratva878]

@@stella-vu8vh i wrote my 28 pg thesis on Adderall, _then_ went to a job interview, landed them both

[@Ari-us8gt]

Albert Camus

[@kiranpandith]

We need Cassius Marcellus Clay biography. The legendary abolitionist from Kentucky!

[@nuduce123]

I found out about Kerouac when I was younger researching all of the events in We Didn't Start the Fire.

[@kyley3578]

13:40 that is clearly a fake image. The Toyota behind him is from the 90's!

[@mrsx7944]

That's weird because it's definitely JK.

[@andyfairhurst8793]

Do Bukowski. Seriously, he created and defined a literary movement.

[@dansharpe2364]

Yes, this. Do it now.

[@krux6786]

If you haven't already, doing a video on J.D. Salinger would be great!

[@SandfordSmythe]

And include his PTSD from seeing the horrors of WWII.

[@mrsx7944]

That would be great.

[@ahobimo732]

"You have offended the Holy Ghost" is perhaps the greatest diss of all time.

[@flockofwolves]

Thanks for that, I’ve just finished reading On The Road, as a writer myself, and my father is a writer, it has thoroughly affected my perception especially of American life.

[@ktlemongrass5129]

Thank you, he was always just a name for me before. I was a homeless teen and everyone would suggest I read him - now I know why!

[@wannabepoet9647]

Besides Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski, Kerouac is among my favorite writers. As a 25 year old, currently unemployed student barely scraping enough to make through my monthly rent, Kerouac’s poetry and other writings hit me, and I mean hit me, deeply. Thanks for this vid!

[@JC-ks3yk]

I'm pretty sure Simon mispronounces "Lowell" just to make Bay Staters angry

[@gallifrey42501]

It’s very interesting that his childhood home isn’t a museum or something. I understand he didn’t spend the bulk of his life there, but it would still be a good idea to try and do something special with it besides a plaque that states “Jack Kerouac was born here”.

[@edgaralanfrog]

The movie the Beatnicks is why i really want to name any future son I have Lucien (just really like the way it sounds)

[@Windds]

I read on the road I started reading the book when I was in a real bad mental health time period. It really healed me a lot I just ordered Dharma Bums it’s suppose to arrive this week!

[@primesspct2]

I enjoyed this immensely ! Thank you Simon!

[@michaelandrewsalomonenewje4107]

Thank you for bringing up the lost novel I never knew about.

[@traceyyeoman8391]

Jack Kerouac, loved him. loved the book, wow did not know that he had an affair with another great Gore Vidal, incredible man. Actually could you do a biographic on Gore Vidal, the man was possibly the most articulate man who ever lived. Really enjoy your biographics they are everything I need . Thank you this was superb made me all excited again, I going downtown tomorrow to find that book and read it again and Big Sur yes. Brought back a wonderful feeling that book got me travelling and I looked for the romance everywhere I went , loved his spirit. He was definitely an American Great.

[@janeewalker]

It was a one night stand with Vidal. i wouldn't call it an affair.

[@michealkelly9441]

PLEASE do a vid on William S Burroughs!! Kerouac one of my major hero's as well

[@fromulus]

Despite the tragic end to his life, you still have to envy him living in America in that time, really for him, the perfect time.

[@mrsx7944]

Imagine what he would think of America in 2021

[@richardwellend3806]

Ive been on a kerouac kick lately and speaking of his brother Gérard, visions of Gérard is one of the books ive read recently.... cant reccomend it enough its a beautiful book!

[@Manaconda-Mike]

My favorite author aside from Huxley. My words don't do justice to how great his writing is

[@paulmatters2641]

He couldn't write a note to his milkman. Tolstoy he is not.

[@Manaconda-Mike]

@@paulmatters2641 give me Pushkin and Dostoevsky over Tolstoy

[@paulmatters2641]

@@Manaconda-Mike If you think Kerouac is a writer i will give you my notes to my milkman champ. You obviously appreciate pure arse gravy.

[@michaelandrewsalomonenewje4107]

We must keep in mind that Jack Kerouac had the influence of Thomas Wolfe, the fellow from North Carolina, and before that, well before that, Walt Wittman

[@jasonkerouac4048]

As a Kerouac, I read quite a bit of his work growing up (not all), but never did much research on the man himself. Interesting video. Thanks!

[@thomaskittock2866]

Wonderful video! If I may provide a critique, I would avoid using some of that modern stock footage when attempting to visualize a concept or topic, it appears very cheap. Not only that, but it makes the presentation appear less authentic and elevated compared to other amateur channels. Keep up the good work, I find these videos comforting and informational!

[@piratapan]

@13:46 - Is that image really correct? I think the cars look so modern.

[@bubbagump2704]

Jack, Neal, and Allen stood for compassion, freedom, and joy. Everyone check out the app Share the Meal where people can help feed kids that need it and pass it on!!

[@pelaronson4086]

GREAT!!!...love Kerouac, n love your work!!! Kongrats XXX

[@PGar58]

Excellent. Suggestion box: Next up: Henry Miller. This would be epic. A hell of a life literally to the very end.

[@bullghani]

So excited every time I get a push notification from biographical. Simon and crew you guys are amazing.

[@TheMeritCoba]

Thank you for this. I like the insights.

[@mikeymorrison272]

Read On The Road two years ago, stuck with me. Plan to get more into him after this!

[@brandonorgeron143]

Could you do a biography on Eugene V Debbs? I’d love to see that!

[@mrsx7944]

That would be great.

[@morgellon9449]

I was just talking to someone about this Neal Cassady book I bought but haven't read yet. Seems a lot of people are getting synchronicity on this one, today. A sign. The world is finally coming around to the Beat vision. Cops actually going to jail for murder instead of getting away with it. Psychedelics getting legalized. Good times.

[@larrygrecko921]

✊🏻

[@juliananino2000]

Love these videos sm but can we please see more female writers??? Jane Austen? The Brontes? Flannery O’Connor? Virginia Woolf? Emily Dickinson? Sylvia Plath? Toni Morrison? Octavia E. Butler? Maya Angelou? I’d love to learn more about those talented writers (:

[@NagoyaHouseHead]

The way you truncate his life post publication of On The Road is somewhat misleading. He was an incredibly prolific writer. Here is his bibliography : 1950 The Town and the City 1957 On The Road 1958 The Subterraneans 1958 The Dharma Bums 1959 Doctor Sax 1959 Maggie Cassidy 1960 Tristessa 1960 Lonesome Traveller 1960 Book of Dreams 1962 Big Sur 1963 Visions of Gerard 1965 Desolation Angels 1966 Satori in Paris 1968 Vanity of Duluoz And for the record Satori in Paris and Vanity of Duluoz are as good as anything he produced. This is not to mention the many volumes of poetry and published letters also. The quality of his work did not decline. It is an incredible literary career.

[@MrK9KOP99]

still waiting for the simon whistler biographics episode

[@FactMonkey001]

You should do a video on Upton Sinclair

[@rubibrazil]

Thank u very much for shared this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I love jack Kerouac ❤

[@tonyliu7695]

Can we have a Biographics on Marcus Agrippa?

[@Gr0g234]

"la-wowl massachusetts" 😬

[@johnlarson111]

if you are going to do a biography on Jack Kerouac you should do a biography on ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters

[@perryleduc1954]

yes!! would love to see this, and hello fellow deadhesd

[@paige5333]

I would love to see a video on Patty Hearst! I can’t find anything on KZbin that really scratches that same Biographics itch

[@camero220]

Holy flowers floating in the air were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

[@chris623able]

Yo, Simon! Can you guys do a video on Quanah Parker last great comanche warchief oooor someone like Sitting Bull or Geronimo? Honestly any great figure out of Native American history.

[@berrypoundz7879]

Can you do Karl Lagerfeild. And also ............ UR KILLNG IT i love all of your channels

[@dudepool7530]

I legitimately lived in Lowell Mass for like, 5 years, and don't know Jack lmao. There are some placards and the like around the city, but they never drew my attention. Now that it's been over 5 years since I lived there, it's time to learn about him lmao.

[@ndogg20]

13:40 Caption reads"1951" background: 21st century cars. Talk about your esoteric symbolism.

[@jameshoy380]

The photograph at 13:45 shows a man who I assume to Kerouac standing in front of late oughts Toyota Corolla. So either it’s a time machine, that’s not Jack or this is a photochop.

[@mrsx7944]

That's definitely JK. I don't think that's a Toyota

[@jameshoy380]

@@mrsx7944 Both the cars in the background are modern cars. Certainly from after Kerouac passed away. I'm 100% certain that's a Corolla

[@mrsx7944]

@@jameshoy380 that's very bizarre because that's definitely JK

[@simonshaw8727]

Absolutely fantastic day when I saw the title of this video :) love kerouac his books made me fall in love with literature

[@user-ns3du6mi2g]

At 13:47 why is there a 2000's Toyota Corolla in the background? Time travel?

[@MinionofNobody]

I enjoyed the video but I think you missed some major events in Kerouac’s life including his television interview with Steve Allen and his subsequent album with Allen. His later recording with some of his jazz heroes can safely be considered one of the low points in Kerouac’s life and should have been covered. I tend to think of Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski as being two sides of the same coin. Alternatively, I sometimes think of Bukowski as being Kerouac’s evil twin. Can you please cover Charle’s Bukowski?

[@gcjoy]

Lalle, Massachusetts? It's LOWell Massachusetts.

[@Iamtheliquor]

And someone from a whole other continent is supposed to know how to pronounce some never heard of back water....

[@Reverend_Nada]

A good one. Will search if you’ve done a vid on Yukio Mishima. If not....

[@lukehammond8160]

Was just ordering some of his books, and this came up. Thanks for reading my mind biographics