Michael Imperioli, Josh Brolin, Matt Dillon, Director Ebs Burnough & More Go ‘On The Road’ With Jack Kerouac In Tribeca Documentary

Michael Imperioli on Jack Kerouac, Buddhism and a Changing New York: ‘I Still Love the City to Death’

When a bright-eyed, 17 year-old Michael Imperioli first moved to New York City in the early ’80s, just as he was beginning to find his footing in East Village’s buzzing arts scene, he strolled into St. Mark’s Books and picked up a book that would change his life forever: “The Diamond Sutra.” The historic Buddhist text, written in India sometime in the 2nd century CE and believed to be the world’s earliest printed books, isn’t exactly the liter…

Michael Imperioli, Josh Brolin, Matt Dillon, Director Ebs Burnough & More Go ‘On The Road’ With Jack Kerouac In Tribeca Documentary

EXCLUSIVE: Author Jack Kerouac set an ambitious task for himself when he pondered writing On the Road, his 1957 masterpiece that still reverberates in the American imagination. “My purpose is to conquer knowledge of the U.S.A.,” he wrote, “to know it as I know the palm of my hand.” Those words, immodest, carried away with […]

Doc About Jack Kerouac's 'On The Road' Premieres At Tribeca Festival

EXCLUSIVE: Author Jack Kerouac set an ambitious task for himself when he pondered writing On the Road, his 1957 masterpiece that still reverberates in the American imagination. “My purpose is to conquer knowledge of the U.S.A.,” he wrote, “to know it as I know the palm of my hand.” Those words, immodest, carried away with possibility and essentially romantic, are articulated in the new documentary Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation, which …