The Buddhist Years

Shuttleworth, Charles: - Charles Shuttleworth is senior editor of Sal Paradise Press, in charge of identifying and shepherding writings in the Kerouac archive to publication. As such, he edited Desolation Peak, published in 2022, which 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; and the next volume, The Buddhist Years, focuses on writings from 1954-'57, revealing how Kerouac's study of Buddhism led to spiritual insights and colored his fiction. Shuttleworth has been teaching classes on Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation for the past thirty years, currently at the Harker School in San Jose, California.