Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac in 1952. Photograph by Carolyn Cassady. (Courtesy City Lights.)

Kerouac Reconsidered

"My Witness is the Empty Sky"

March 15, 2026

I came across Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums in a chain bookshop at King’s Cross station. I was on my way to interview a radical publisher and ended up buying the lesser-known Zen-and-mountains tale for a friend in Ukraine. Across from the bookshop, tourists were lining up, as they always do, for photographs beside Harry […]

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Peter Bach lives in London.

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