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JOHN CLELLON HOLMES, a friend and fellow novelist, called him "the great rememberer." But when we remember Jack Kerouac only 11 years after his alcoholic death, we too often remember the man and his fabulous stories, rather than his genius. Jack Kerouac was that kind of writer. His writing was...
Jack Kerouac did not write reportage, he wrote fiction. He had a memory for detail and the abstract which earned him Holmes's affectionate epitaph. Above all, Kerouac applied a new, rhapsodic prose form to the old story of a young man's crazy adventures.
The biography is illuminating because it pieces together the puzzling parts of a personality and a mind which has become cliched by fame. He was a great storyteller, they said. He was wonderful and crazy, they said. He wrote great autobiographies and fathered the hippie generation, they said. Clearly, Kerouac...
Charged with Thorpe last week were David Holmes, 46, a Manchester financial consultant and former deputy treasurer of the Liberals, and George Deakin, 35, and John Le Mesurier, 44, both business associates of Holmes'. All four had been under investigation since October 1977, following the public confession by a...
At the time of his trial, Newton maintained that Scott had been blackmailing him. After his release from prison in July 1977, however, Newton claimed that his run-in with Scott was actually the result of a "contract" to murder the man. The only reason that Scott was not dead...