Table Of Contents:
Preface vii
Introduction xvii
Chronology of Jack Kerouac's Life xxi
Kerouac's Introduction xxiii
THE LEGEND OF DULUOZ

Editor's Introduction 3(16)

from Doctor Sax 19(2)

``It was in Centralville I was born...across the wide basin to the hill---on Lupine Road, March 1922, at five o'clock...''

from Visions of Gerard 21(22)

``For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world was his face...''

``Home at Christmas'' 43(6)

``It's a Sunday afternoon in New England just three days before Christmas...''

from Doctor Sax 49(14)

``Two o'clock---strange---thunder and the yellow walls of my mother's kitchen with the green electric clock...''

from Maggie Cassidy 63(29)

``The Concord River flows by her house, in July evening the ladies of Massachusetts Street are sitting on wooden doorsteps with newspapers for fans...''

from Vanity of Duluoz 92(47)

``What dreams you get when you think you're going to go to college...''

from On the Road 139(34)

``With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road...''

``The Mexican Girl'' (from On the Road) 173(19)

``I had bought my ticket and was waiting for the L. A. bus...''

from On the Road 192(30)

``It was drizzling and mysterious at the beginning of our journey...''

``Jazz of the Beat Generation'' 222(10)

``Out we jumped in the warm mad night hearing a wild tenorman's bawling horn...''

from ``The Railroad Earth'' (from Lonesome Traveler) 232(13)

``There was a little alley in San Francisco back of the Southern Pacific station at Third and Townsend in redbrick of drowsy lazy afternoons...''

from The Subterraneans 245(15)

``I had never heard such a story from such a soul except from the great men I had known in my youth, great heroes of America...''

from Tristessa 260(17)

``I'm riding along with Tristessa in the cab, drunk, with big bottle of Juarez Bourbon whiskey in the till-bag railroad lootbag...''

from The Dharma Bums 277(4)

``Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955...''

from ``Good Blonde'' 281(10)

`` `Damn,' said I, `I'll just hitchhike on that highway' (101) seeing the fast flash of many cars...''

from The Dharma Bums 291(29)

``In Berkeley I was living with Alvah Goldbook in his little rose-covered cottage in the backyard of a bigger house on Milvia Street...''

from Desolation Angels 320(76)

``It was on this trip that the great change took place in my life...''

from Big Sur 396(53)

``The last time I ever hitch hiked---And NO RIDES a sign...''
POETRY

Editor's Introduction 449(4)

from San Francisco Blues 453(3)

``Daydreams for Ginsberg'' 456(1)

``Rose Pome'' 457(1)

``Woman'' 458(1)

``Rimbaud'' 458(5)

``Hymn'' (``And when you showed me Brooklyn Bridge'') 463(1)

``Poem'' (``I demand that the human race ceases multiplying'') 464(1)

``A Pun for Al Gelpi'' 465(1)

``Two Poems Dedicated to Thomas Merton'' 466(1)

``How to Meditate'' 466(1)

``Hitch Hiker'' 467(1)

``Pome on Doctor Sax'' 468(1)

from Book of Haikus: ``Some Western Haikus'' 469(4)

``Sea: The Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur'' 473(8)
ON SPONTANEOUS PROSE

Editor's Introduction 481(2)

``Belief & Technique for Modern Prose'' 483(1)

``Essentials of Spontaneous Prose'' 484(2)

``The First Word: Jack Kerouac Takes a Fresh Look at Jack Kerouac'' 486(2)

``Are Writers Made or Born?'' 488(5)
THE MODERN SPONTANEOUS METHOD

Editor's Introduction 493(4)

``In the Ring'' 497(3)

``On the Road to Florida'' 500(6)

from Visions of Cody 506(26)

``The Three Stooges'' 506(6)

``Well, Cody is always interested in himself...'' 512(3)

``Joan Rawshanks in the Fog'' 515(17)

from Book of Dreams 532(12)

from Old Angel Midnight 544(7)
ON BOP AND THE BEAT GENERATION

Editor's Introduction 551(4)

``The Beginning of Bop'' 555(4)

``About the Beat Generation'' 559(3)

``Lamb, No Lion'' 562(3)

``Beatific: The Origins of the Beat Generation'' 565(8)

``After Me, the Deluge'' 573(8)
ON BUDDHISM

Editor's Introduction 581(4)

``The Last Word: Because none of us want to think that the universe is a blank dream...'' 585(2)

from Book of Dreams 587(3)

from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity 590(11)
SELECTED LETTERS

Editor's Introduction 601(2)

To Norma Blickfelt, August 25, 1942 603(2)

Young merchant seaman Kerouac describes his dream of becoming a writer

To Neal Cassady, May 22, 1951 605(3)

Account to Neal about ``my book about you'' [On the Road]

To John Clellon Holmes, June 3, 1952 608(3)

``Wild form's the only form holds what I have to say...''

To Allen Ginsberg, October 1, 1957 611(3)

``Everything's been happening here'' the week after publication of On the Road

To Allen Ginsberg, September 22, 1960 614(2)

Description of West Coast trip later dramatized in Big Sur

To Sterling Lord, May 5, 1961 616(1)

List of books comprising the Duluoz Legend

To Ann Charters, August 5, 1966 617(2)

Invitation to visit him in Hyannis and work together on his bibliography: ``I've kept the neatest records you ever saw''
Identity Key 619(2)
Books 621(2)

Jack Kerouac
List of Originally Published Sources 623