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2. The Dharma Bums - Wikipedia

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   The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road . The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder , who was instrumental in Kerouac's ...

3. Dharma Bums (band) - Wikipedia

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   The Dharma Bums were a U.S. garage band, consisting of Jim Talstra, John Moen, Jeremy Wilson, and Eric Lovre. [2] They named themselves after the Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums . The band was formed in 1987 in Portland, Oregon , United States, [ 2 ] by members of two local bands, The Watchmen and Perfect Circle (no connection with the later ...

4. Welcome (Dharma Bums album) - Wikipedia

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   Welcome is an album by the American band Dharma Bums, released in 1992. [1] [2] Issued via Frontier Records, it was the band's final album.[3] [4] A video was shot for "The Light in You", the album's first single. [5]

5. Jack Kerouac - Wikipedia

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   Kerouac was demoralized by criticism of Dharma Bums from such respected figures in the American field of Buddhism as Zen teachers Ruth Fuller Sasaki and Alan Watts. He wrote to Snyder, referring to a meeting with D. T. Suzuki, that "even Suzuki was looking at me through slitted eyes as though I was a monstrous imposter."

6. The Subterraneans - Wikipedia

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   The Dharma Bums (1958) The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by the Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac . It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with Alene Lee (1931–1991), an African-American woman, in Greenwich Village, New York.

7. Jack Kerouac bibliography - Wikipedia

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   The Dharma Bums (written November 1957; published 1958) Doctor Sax (written June 1952; published 1959) Maggie Cassidy (written Jan. 2, 1953; published 1959) Tristessa (written summer 1955 and fall 1956; published 1960) Book of Dreams (written 1952–1960; published 1960) Big Sur (written October 1961; published 1962)

8. Gary Snyder - Wikipedia

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   Then, through Ginsberg, Snyder and Kerouac came to know each other. This period provided the materials for Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums, and Snyder was the inspiration for the novel's main character, Japhy Ryder, in the same way Neal Cassady had inspired Dean Moriarty in On the Road. As the large majority of people in the Beat movement had ...

9. Philip Whalen - Wikipedia

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   He appears, in barely fictionalized form, as the character "Warren Coughlin" in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, which includes an account of that reading. [4] In Big Sur he is called "Ben Fagan". [4] Whalen's poetry was featured in Donald Allen's anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960.