On the Road on Le Grand Meaulnes: “I had a book with me I stole from a Hollywood stall, "Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain-Fournier, but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along.”
On the Road on The Mysteries of Paris: “Out of his seabag he fished a copy of Eugene Sue's Mysteries of Paris and, adjusting the front of his T-shirt, began reading on the street corner with a pedantic air.”
The Anthropocene Reviewed on On the Road: “As Kerouac does in On the Road when he writes, "Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields."”
How to Read and Why on On the Road: “The Magic Mountain cannot be read sandwiched in between On the Road and some chunk of cyberpunk.”
Books: A Memoir on On the Road: “the novel by John Clellon Holmes that preceded On the Road in the chronology of Beatdom”
Literary Life: A Second Memoir on On the Road: “Jack Kerouac I never met, and I regret that, because I think his one really good novel, On the Road, marked the real end of New Critical dominance.”
Reading Like a Writer on Big Sur: “The story was told to me by a friend whose life in art mostly involved telling versions of his true life story... discussion follows a passage compared with Kerouac's Big Sur.”