Why Kerouac matters: the lessons of On the road (they're not what you think)

[book 1.] Girls, visions, everything : the education of Sal Paradise

Growing up Kerouac

The parable of the wet hitchhiker

What would Jack do?

[book 2.] Paradise among the Dingledodies : the parables of men

The mad ones

Sal's guide to work and money

The book of lost fathers

[book 3.] The true story of the world is a French movie : the parables of love and sex

How not to pick up girls

The family guy

[book 4.] We don't go skating like the Scott Fitzgeralds : the parables of jazz

The Tao of Orooni

We know time

[book 5.] Visions of Sal : the book of revelations

The holy goofs

Ghosts

Visions

The aftermath : success and its discontents

Sad Paradise and the lessons unlearned.