Lonesome Traveler

De: Jack Kerouac

Narrado por: Andrew Eiden

From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels.

In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London.

He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.

Included here are “Piers of a Homeless Night,” “Mexico Fellaheen,” “The Railroad Earth,” “Slobs of the Kitchen Sea,” “New York Scenes,” “Alone on a Mountaintop,” “Big Trip to Europe,” and “The Vanishing American Hobo.” All feature his distinctive exuberant style of prose.

This collection, first published together in 1960, is a unique addition to Kerouac’s body of work.

©1960 Jack Kerouac. Copyright renewed 1988 by Grove Press (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

Fell Back in Love

It's been a number of years since I first read Kerouac's books, and I've been making my way through the available audiobooks over the last 5 years or so, but for some reason listening to this relatively new audiobook of Lonesome Traveler really felt like a homecoming, a reconnection, that put me back in touch with all of the things that made me fall in love with the writing in the first place. I listened to it in one fell swoop, on a long road trip that I've made many times, and the words and pictures they evoked washed over me and took me out of myself for many hours. Reading (or listening to) Kerouac is the closest I ever come to really experiencing life through the eyes and mind of another human being, and listening to this performance of this book was a very pure experience of that.