Word: kerouacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snowy Tuesday in March, White meets a visitor at the Providence railroad station. "Both Diane Von Furstenberg's daughter Tatiana and Jane Fonda's daughter Vanessa Vadim are in my writing class, and Ann Charters -- do you know who she is? -- she wrote a biography on Kerouac -- is in my Genet class," White says breathlessly. On the way home, he stops off at a student's house to pick up a copy of Genet's The Screens. "Isn't he cute," White says of the student when he returns to the car. "I have to avert my eyes when...
Luckily, Harvard Square seems to have dodged the recent onslaught of identical chain book stores. The Square's bookstore owners know that Harvard's, shall we say, "intellectually motivated" clientele know their Tom Wolfe from their Thomas Wolfe, and usually choose Jack Kerouac over Jackie Collins...
...superior flapdoodle is hard to find, and nobody wrote it better, a couple of decades ago, than Tom Robbins. His rowdy novels Still Life with Woodpecker, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction were cheerful, raunchy, anti-Establishment rambunctions. Their woozy aesthetic principle was that of Jack Kerouac and Richard Brautigan: Keep typing, Cowboy; brilliance may be just around the corner. And sometimes -- look what I found...