Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac wrote 'The Dharma Bums,' a novel often cited as a work that inspired the Beat and Hippie cultures.

In 1958 Kerouac’s

In 1958 Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums was published, making Buddhism available to a new American clientele.

the narrator , Ray Smith, and Jack Kerouac's friend Japhy Ryder

The Dharma Bums follows the narrator, Ray Smith, and Jack Kerouac's friend Japhy Ryder on their spiritual journey of self-discovery.

another success for Kerouac

Released just one year following the success of essayist Gary Snyder's previous novel, On the Road, The Dharma Bums was another success for Kerouac and became one of essayist Gary Snyder's most popular books.

the place from where the main characters start their climb to the nearby Matterhorn Peak Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder and Henry Morley

Bridgeport plays a small role in the novel The Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac; The Dharma Bums is the place from where the main characters Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder and Henry Morley start their climb to the nearby Matterhorn Peak.

on Kerouac’s own younger life

The Dharma Bums is a semi-fictional book, based on Kerouac’s own younger life when Burroughs was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, enamoured with poet Gary Snyder.

one of Kerouac’s greater works,

The Dharma Bums, written in 1958, is one of Kerouac’s greater works, in my opinion.

a semi-fictional novel about the years following those On the Road depicted in Dharma Bums's most famous novel,

For any Jack Kerouac fans, Dharma Bums is a semi-fictional novel about the years following those depicted in Dharma Bums's most famous novel, On the Road.

The culmination of the time Kerouac spent with Gary Snyder and the other Beats in San Francisco

The culmination of the time Kerouac spent with Gary Snyder and the other Beats in San Francisco resulted in The Dharma Bums which Kerouac wrote in November, 1956.

the product of Kerouac's profound fascination with Buddhism in Kerouac's early career

: The Dharma Bums is the product of Kerouac's profound fascination with Buddhism in Kerouac's early career.

a conversation between himself (Ray Smith) and the poet Gary Snyder (Japhy Ryder) in which Kerouac describes a Buddhist prayer the Jack Kerouac's created that's centered around the idea which we're all equally empty in Buddha's eyes

The Dharma Bums, Kerouac portrays a conversation between himself (Ray Smith) and the poet Gary Snyder (Japhy Ryder) in which Kerouac describes a Buddhist prayer the Jack Kerouac's created that's centered around the idea which we're all equally empty in Buddha's eyes.

about Kerouac's adventures with Gary Snyder

On The Road and Visions of Cody focus on Kerouac's best friend Neal Cassady, The Dharma Bums is about Kerouac's adventures with Gary Snyder, And The Hippos Were Boiled In Kerouac's Tanks (written with William S. Burroughs) was about a mutual friend who murdered a lover, and so forth.

my favorite novel of Jack

The Dharma Bums is my favorite novel of Jack Kerouac's[hence my license plate: DHRMABM].

at Kerouac's publishers request to cash in on the success of On the Road

Kerouac's most successful books, On the Road and Dharma Bums, are the slickest and most light-weight–Dharma Bums was written at Kerouac's publishers request to cash in on the success of On the Road.

Jory Gibson , Linfield student, class of 2015,

Jory Gibson, Linfield student, class of 2015, reading The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac.

which was Kerouac's turn-about from On the Road and into the mountains and nature

After that evening Kerouac wrote Kerouac's novel Dharma Bums, which was Kerouac's turn-about from On the Road and into the mountains and nature.

John Henry Fleming

John Henry Fleming wrote The Dharma Bums in Orlando, and in St. Pete John Henry Fleming died.

Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life

The Dharma Bums' is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.

to provide readers with a unique insight into spirituality and at that time countercultural values

By writing The Dharma Bums, Kerouac sought to provide readers with a unique insight into spirituality and countercultural values at that time.

make coffee, and sit myself down at a small desk in the same tiny room where Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums and I would write for two hours

I would rise around 6AM each day, make coffee, and sit myself down at a small desk in the same tiny room where Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums and I would write for two hours.