Big Sur Resources
Movie or TV Productions
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, 2008
A documentary based on what really went down that weekend at Monsanto's cabin.
Videos
Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac
Poet Allen Ginsberg talks about the death of Jack Kerouac.
Interview
An interview with Jan Kerouac, Jack's only child.
Images
Neal Cassady, a.k.a. Cody Pomeray
The Holy Goof
Jack Kerouac, a.k.a. Jack Duluoz
In his sailing days
Lew Welch, a.k.a. Dave Wain
The beat poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a.k.a. Lorenzo Monsanto
And his City Lights Bookstore
Philip Whalen, a.k.a. Ben Fagan
Showing off his portrait, courtesy of Michael McClure (a.k.a. Patrick McLear)
Lenore Kandel, a.k.a. Romana Swartz
Kerouac's friend from his On the Road days, who is famous as a writer in her own right.
Carolyn Cassady, a.k.a. Evelyn Pomeray
Neal Cassady's wife at the time of Big Sur.
Michael McClure, a.k.a. Patrick McLear
As immortalized in the National Portrait Gallery.
City Lights Bookstore
Still open in San Francisco at 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway.
The Bridge That Terrified Jack
"A thousand unbridgeable heights above."
Documents
Not-to-be-missed Reference Source
Lists the real-life names of Jack and Co. along with their fictional alter-egos in Kerouac's various texts. Some biographical info included. Organized both by book and by individual.
Other
"Without Missing a Beat"
John Cassady, Neal's son, remembers his dad and Jack Kerouac.
Official Page of City Lights Bookstore
Ferlinghetti sightings not guaranteed.
"One Fast Move or I'm Gone"
The homepage for the 2008 documentary on Kerouac's experience in Big Sur.