- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. · Letter from Birmingham Jail
- ALLEN GINSBERG · Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber
- DAPHNE DU MAURIER · The Breakthrough
- DOROTHY PARKER · The Custard Heart
- Three Japanese Short Stories
- ANAÏS NIN · The Veiled Woman
- GEORGE ORWELL · Notes on Nationalism
- GERTRUDE STEIN · Food
- STANISLAW LEM · The Three Electroknights
- PATRICK KAVANAGH · The Great Hunger
- DANILO KIŠ · The Legend of the Sleepers
- RALPH ELLISON · The Black Ball
- JEAN RHYS · Till September Petronella
- FRANZ KAFKA · Investigations of a Dog
- CLARICE LISPECTOR · Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
- RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI · An Advertisement for Toothpaste
- ALBERT CAMUS · Create Dangerously
- JOHN STEINBECK · The Vigilante
- FERNANDO PESSOA · I Have More Souls Than One
- SHIRLEY JACKSON · The Missing Girl
- Four Russian Short Stories
- ITALO CALVINO · The Distance of the Moon
- AUDRE LORDE · The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
- LEONORA CARRINGTON · The Skeleton’s Holiday
- WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS · The Finger
- SAMUEL BECKETT · The End
- KATHY ACKER · New York City in 1979
- CHINUA ACHEBE · Africa’s Tarnished Name
- SUSAN SONTAG · Notes on ‘Camp’
- JOHN BERGER · The Red Tenda of Bologna
- FRANÇOISE SAGAN · The Gigolo
- CYPRIAN EKWENSI · Glittering City
- JACK KEROUAC · Piers of the Homeless Night
- HANS FALLADA · Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?
- TRUMAN CAPOTE · The Duke in His Domain
- SAUL BELLOW · Leaving the Yellow House
- KATHERINE ANNE PORTER · The Cracked Looking-Glass
- JAMES BALDWIN · Dark Days
- GEORGES SIMENON · Letter to My Mother
- WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS · Death the Barber
- BETTY FRIEDAN · The Problem that Has No Name
- FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA · The Dialogue of Two Snails
- YUKO TSUSHIMA · Of Dogs and Walls
- JAVIER MARÍAS · Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
- CARSON MCCULLERS · The Haunted Boy
- JORGE LUIS BORGES · The Garden of Forking Paths
- ANDY WARHOL · Fame
- PRIMO LEVI · The Survivor
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV · Lance
- WENDELL BERRY · Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
JACK KEROUAC
Born 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Died 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
These two journal entries about Jack Kerouac’s itinerant experiences in the United States were first published in Lonesome Traveler, in 1960.
KEROUAC IN PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (with William S. Burroughs)
Big Sur
Desolation Angels
The Dharma Bums
Doctor Sax
The Haunted Life
Lonesome Traveler
Maggie Cassidy
On the Road
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Satori in Paris
The Sea is My Brother
The Subterraneans
The Town and the City
Vanity of Duluoz
Visions of Cody
Wake Up
Jack Kerouac
PIERS OF THE HOMELESS NIGHT
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This selection first published 2018
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ISBN: 978-0-241-33919-0
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Piers of the Homeless Night
The Vanishing American Hobo
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