Praise for Satori in Paris and Jack Kerouac: A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection"A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things."–The Guardian"An outsider in America, Jack Kerouac was a true original."–Ann Charters"The wonder of Kerouac's muscular, free-form, imagistic language still astonishes. He remains an essential American mythologizer–one caught up in that backstreet world of bohemian life, before it was transformed by the harsh social Darwinism of capitalism . . . A hundred years after his birth, we still want to live that Kerouacian vision of life as one long cool stretch of highway."–New Statesman