Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, Fifty Years On

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Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums, Fifty Years On
      

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums, a book that, then and now, received less attention than his better-known novel On the Road.

Allan Ginsberg thought The Dharma Bums "less personal and 'wild'" than the earlier work, and so it is — for which reason many critics have considered it a more mature, more enduring work.

See the video for some well-presented excerpts from this work by readers in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.

         

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