Tag: Jack Kerouac
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Go by John Clellon Holmes: The First Beat Novel, 1952
John Clellon Holmes published Go in 1952, five years before On the Road, with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Cassady in it under other names. It is the first Beat novel.
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Off the Road: Carolyn Cassady Corrects the Beat Record
Carolyn Cassady’s Off the Road tells twenty years with Neal Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg from the house they kept leaving. It is the corrective to On the Road.
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The First Third: Neal Cassady’s Unfinished Autobiography
Neal Cassady’s The First Third is the Beat era’s most famous muse attempting authorship, a fragmentary memoir revealing as much by failing as succeeding.
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Minor Characters: Joyce Johnson Rewrites the Beat Story
Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters (1983) tells the Beat story from the women’s side of the room, and is the best-written book the movement produced about itself.
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On the Road: Kerouac’s Scroll and the Myth It Created
On the Road made Jack Kerouac famous overnight in 1957. The legend of its three-week composition obscures six years of revision, and its treatment of women.
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Where Am I? Sartori in Paris
Sartori in Paris I’d wanted to read this for many years but reading doesn’t come easy these days. 4096 miles on a budget airline in an aisle seat flying over the…
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Arthur Rimbaud: The Teenage Vagabond Who Changed All of Poetry
Arthur Rimbaud quit writing poetry at 19 and spent the rest of his life as a wandering trader in Africa. Before he stopped, he wrote some of the most influential…
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Jack Kerouac
This is an excerpt from my book “Vagabonds: Sometimes Getting Lost is the Point” . It’s available as an ebook for kindle or ebook readers. Over the next several months we…
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