Shelfology Book Pairing

by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's groundbreaking novel soon to be a major motion picture with a star-studded cast. In what is sure to be one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, "On the Road," will finally hit the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries"; "Paris, Je T'Aime") and with a cast of some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams ("Julie & Julia," "The Fighter"), Tom Sturridge, and Viggo Mortensen (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "The Road"), the film will attract new fans who will be inspired by Kerouac's revolutionary masterwork.

FSG 80th Anniversary Special Edition

by Tom Wolfe

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism. An evergreen classic that broke open the possibilities of creative nonfiction, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is Tom Wolfe’s seminal New Journalist portrait of a counterculture in formation and a nation undergoing constant flux. Wolfe follows Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the 1960s, as he travels America with his band of Merry Pranksters, experimenting with psychedelics, running into Hells Angels, and bridging the gap between 1950s Beats and a burgeoning hippie movement. With curious and energetic prose, Wolfe tells the story of a new age in American culture while forever expanding our understanding of what journalism might be.