The Buddhist Years: Collected Writings of Jack Kerouac

A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinking.

From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what h...