Word: kerouac
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...preoccupations: LSD, pot, the Spirit of Berkeley, californication, and not fighting in Viet Nam. While there are only a few of them, they have begun to produce a noisy literature that confesses its mongrel origin in the cult of hip, the theater of the absurd, the works of Jack Kerouac, the pop art movement and some of the more deplorable traditions of the college humor magazine...
...through two years of Columbia law school "before I realized I spent more time in Drama Professor Eric Bentley's class than in law classes." After that discovery, he quit school entirely and headed for San Francisco "to find out what was happening. That was the Kerouac era." After a hitch in Army intelligence, he started his professional writing career in 1960, doubling as the off-Broadway man for Women's Wear and a music critic for the Village Voice. Three years ago he left the Voice and, at 29, took on the top slot at Women...
...Kerouac 'n' Roll...
...Several years ago, there was a movement to intellectualize "action writing" and Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, et al. This was followed by the effort to intellectualize action and pop painting, which, I guess, is still with us. Now we are in the throes of a movement to lend some sort of credit to beat music. TIME can see no farther than the end of its nose...
...intelligent introduction, Seymour Krim says in effect that he admires Kerouac but thinks he has reached the end with Duluoz and action prose, and that he should try something else. Krim is right. But if the Duluoz wandering is over, it has been a wild and sometimes exhilarating ride, from Road to Desolation Angels...