The primary sources collected for both this digital project and written thesis were compiled from published volumes of Jack Kerouac’s correspondence with close confidants, personal journals, and other writings. Other primary sources included are various critical reviews of Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel The Dharma Bums ranging from the Saturday Review to the Chicago Review.
Review of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. The Critic Vol 17, no.3 (1958): 62.
Review of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. The Middle Way Vol 34 (1959): 139.
Bellman, Samuel I. “On the Mountain.” Review of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Chicago Review, (1959).
Bittner, William I. “The Yabyum Set.” The Saturday Review (1958): 36
Casper, Leonard. “The Square Beatific.” America 103, no. 19 (1960): 514.
Cassady, Neal, Carolyn Cassady, and Dave Moore. Collected Letters (1944-1967). New York: Penguin Book, 2005.
Ciardi, John. “Epitaph for the Dead Beats.” Saturday Review 43 (1960): 11.
Enright, D J. “From Log Cabin to Nirvana.” Review of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. The Spectator Vol 203 (1959): 384.
Feldman, Irving. “Stuffed Dharma.” Review of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Commentary Vol 26, no.6 (1958): 543.
Ginsberg, Allen. Review of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. The Village Voice Vol 4, no.3 (1958).
Gleason, Ralph. “Kerouac’s ‘Beat Generation.’” Saturday Review Vol 41 (1958): 75.
Kerouac, Jack. “Beatific: On the Origins of the Beat Generation.” Encounter 13, no. 2 (1959): 57–61.
Kerouac, Jack and Douglas Brinkley. Windblown World : The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Kerouac, Jack, and Ann Charters. Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940-1956. New York: Viking, 1995.
Kerouac, Jack, and Ann Charters. Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969. New York: Viking, 1999.
Kerouac, Jack, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan, and David Stanford. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters. New York: Viking, 2010.
Kerouac, Jack and Ben Hecht, “Interview with Ben Hecht (1958)” track #10 on The Complete Jack Kerouac: Volume Two Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation, Prime Vinyl, 2018, Vinyl.
Kerouac, Jack, and Charles Shuttleworth. Desolation Peak: Collected Writings. Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, 2022.
Kerouac, Jack, Todd F. Tietchen, and Jean-Christophe Cloutier. The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings. Vol. 283. New York: The Library of America, 2016.
Klein, Marcus. “Imps from Bottles, Etc.” The Hudson Review Vol 11, no.4 (1958): 620-625.
Mahoney, Stephen. “The Prevalence of Zen.” The Nation 187, no. 1 (1958): 311-312.
Mather, Richard B. “Review 14—no title” in The Journal of Asian Studies Vol 19, no.3 (1960): 341.
Poore, Charles. “Books of the Times.” New York Times (1958): 35.
Ross, Nancy Wilson. “Beat and Buddhist: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.” New York Times (1958): 244.
Snyder, Gary, Allen Ginsberg, and Bill Morgan. The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991. New York: Counterpoint, 2008.
Watts, Alan. “Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen.” Chicago Review 42, no. 3/4 (1996): 48–55.
Young, B A. “ The Dharma Bums .” Punch 237 (1959): 347.