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jack kerouac alley

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Located between the City Lights Bookstore and the Vesuvio Café in San Francisco, Alder Alley became Jack Kerouac Alley thanks to the efforts of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1998.

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jack & stella kerouac center for american studies

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Founded in 2005 with financial support from Kerouac Estate Executor John Sampas, the Jack & Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies has the stated purpose of strengthening "the interdisciplinary study of American culture by facilitating ties between the fields of English, history, philosophy, cultural studies, art, music, sociology, and economics."

The center serves as the home for the Kerouac Writer-in-Residence program, the Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, Kerouac Scholarships and the New England Poetry Conference.

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