Beat Generation
Scholar, Author, & Editor

Charles
Shuttleworth

is a senior editor of Sal Paradise Press. He has now edited three volumes of writings from the Kerouac archive.

Charles Shuttleworth, Lowell LCK Kickoff 2022

My Books

Jack Kerouac, The Buddhist Years

2025

Jack Kerouac
The Buddhist Years

The Buddhist Years (2025), a collection reflecting the spiritual side of Kerouac’s nature focusing mainly on writings from 1953-’58, when Buddhism became central to his thinking and questioning.

2024

Jack Kerouac
Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait (co-edited with Paul Maher, Jr.), a blend of fiction and nonfiction spanning Kerouac’s entire adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.

Jack Kerouac, Self Portrait
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Peak

2022

Jack Kerouac
Desolation Peak

Desolation Peak, published in 2022, consists of Kerouac’s writing during his two-month stint as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service in the North Cascades in 1956.

Live & Virtual

Events

Conversations with Charles

From Bohemians to Be-Ins: Jack Kerouac and the Rise of the Haight

July 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm PDT

From Bohemians to Be-Ins:
Jack Kerouac and the Rise of the Haight

Free (Registration Required)
Virtual via Zoom, Hosted by City Lights