Word: kerouacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That fateful afternoon, at a bookstore on Newbury, I pick up two things: Kerouac's On the Road--an easy read--and a CD. I've listened to the CD all summer. The book--well, that's another story...
...youth and America and wanderlust would be the kickoff to the summer's most exciting reading list ever. And why not? Like most finals-takers, I had been reading a book or two a day. If I could read Moby Dick in three days, I could surely read a Kerouac book in an afternoon, with time to spare for the entire Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Crimson for desert...
...pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state cops, bumming joints from road people who have read too much Jack Kerouac. Some of this is fun, but adult readers will yell...
Harvard has the transcription of a Jack Kerouac movie called "Pull My Daisy." They do not, however, have the actual film...
...writers, experience dwarfs imagination in importance. Even purveyors of fiction and screenplays mold real-life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...