Book of Sketches
Word Sketches
Jack Kerouac
Penguin: New York, NY, 414 pages

Reviewed by Rob Woodard

Jack Kerouac, as anyone even slightly interested in American literature knows, is the most visible, and arguably most important, writer to emerge from the literary/cultural movement known as Beat, which exploded into mainstream American consciousness in the late 1950s with the publication of his novel ON THE ROAD and his compatriot Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl.” Read the rest of this entry »