Coordinates: 37°47′51″N 122°24′24″W / 37.7975°N 122.4067°W / 37.7975; -122.4067
Jack Kerouac Alley, formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place, is a one-way alleyway in San Francisco, California, that connects Grant Avenue in Chinatown, and Columbus Avenue in North Beach. The alley is named after Jack Kerouac, a Beat Generation writer who used to frequent the pub and bookstore adjacent to the alley.
History
The alley had commonly been used for garbage dumping and a shortcut for trucks before poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who is the co-founder of City Lights Bookstore, presented his idea in 1988 to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to transform the alleyway. The project involved repaving the alley, making it a pedestrian walkway, and installing new street lights. The new look alley was reopened to the public in March 2007 and a ceremony was held in April 2007 to celebrate the reopening. The alley is now known for its engraved Western and Chinese writing, by such writers as John Steinbeck, Maya Angelou, Ferlinghetti, and Kerouac himself.
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| Fiction |
- The Sea Is My Brother (1942)
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945/2008; with William S. Burroughs)
- The Town and the City (1950)
- On the Road (1957)
- The Subterraneans (1958)
- The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Doctor Sax (1959)
- Maggie Cassidy (1959)
- Book of Dreams (1960)
- Tristessa (1960)
- Visions of Cody (1960)
- Lonesome Traveler (1960)
- Big Sur (1962)
- Visions of Gerard (1963)
- Desolation Angels (1965)
- Satori in Paris (1966)
- Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
- Pic (1971)
- Orpheus Emerged (2002)
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| Poetry |
- Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)
- Mexico City Blues (1959)
- The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960)
- Scattered Poems (1971)
- Old Angel Midnight (1973)
- Book of Haikus (2003)
- Book of Sketches (2006)
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| Other books |
- Atop an Underwood (1991)
- Good Blonde & Others (1993)
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| Audio |
- Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959)
- Blues and Haikus (1960)
- Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960)
- The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990)
- Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (1997)
- Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)
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| Related |
| Films |
- Pull My Daisy (1959)
- The Subterraneans (1960)
- Heart Beat (1980)
- Howl (2010)
- Love Always, Carolyn (2011)
- On The Road (2012)
- Big Sur (2013)
- Kill Your Darlings (2013)
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| Writings |
- Moody Street Irregulars (1978–1992)
- Minor Characters (1987)
- Off the Road (1990)
- Door Wide Open (2002)
- You'll be Okay (2007)
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| Audio |
- One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009)
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| North–south streets |
- Castro Street
- Clay Street
- Fillmore Street
- Grant Avenue
- Great Highway
- Junipero Serra Boulevard
- Kearny Street
- Mission Street
- Montgomery Street
- Octavia Boulevard
- Polk Street
- Skyline Boulevard
- Stockton Street
- Stanyan Street
- Van Ness Avenue
- Vermont Street
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| Diagonal streets |
- Alemany Boulevard
- Don Chee Way
- The Embarcadero
- Market Street
- Columbus Avenue
- New Montgomery Street
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San Francisco place names etymologies
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