"Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form" connects the personal and creative development of the Beat generation's famous icon with cultural changes in postwar America. Michael Hrebeniak asserts that Jack Kerouac's "wild form"self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventionsmoves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process." Action Writing" highlights how Kerouac made concrete his 1952 intimation of "something beyond the novel" by assembling ideas from Beat America, modernist poetics, action...