Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair In Letters, 1957-1958
Author
Jack Kerouac & Joyce Johnson
Cover artist
Wendy Lai
Language
English
Genre
Letters Beat
Publisher
Viking Press
Publication date
June 1, 2002
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
182 pages
ISBN
978-0-670-89040-8
OCLC
42771995
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B 21
LC Class
PS3521.E735 Z485 2000
Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair In Letters, 1957-1958 is a collection of letters that were written in 1957-1958 between Joyce Johnson and Jack Kerouac.
The letters depict the rather detached and absurd romance of the two writers, and they are supplemented greatly by Johnson's own narration and related letters between Joyce and her friends and relatives. Johnson is referred to in Kerouac's novel Desolation Angels as Alyce Newman, and she has written several introductions for his works.
The relationship between the two took place during a very pivotal time period in Kerouac's life, when his fame was exploding after the release of On the Road.
Door Wide Open spans events from the couple's first meeting until after the romance had faded into friendship.
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Bibliography
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)
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)
Plays
Beat Generation (2005)
Other books
Atop an Underwood (1991)
Good Blonde & Others (1993)
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)
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)
Writings
Moody Street Irregulars (1978–1992)
Minor Characters (1987)
Off the Road (1990)
Door Wide Open (2002)
You'll be Okay (2007)
Audio
One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009)
People
Jan Kerouac (daughter)
Edie Parker (first wife)
Neal Cassady
Allen Ginsberg
Gregory Corso
William S. Burroughs
Lucien Carr
Joyce Johnson
Carolyn Cassady
Alene Lee
Gary Snyder
Other
Beat Generation
Beatnik
Jack Kerouac School
Jack Kerouac Alley
Kerouac, Then and Now
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