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...message of the Beat poets goes on, and not just because it is commonly force-fed to students. In fact, fascination with Beat literature and culture is experiencing something of a renaissance, with not only Kerouac but fellow hipsters William S. Burroughs ’36 and Allen Ginsburg enjoying the spotlight...
Perhaps the best starting point for understanding Jack Kerouac, his movement and eventually its persistence, is another Dean Moriarty quote from On The Road. “Oh man,” Dean says to Sal in his lyrical way, sitting in a bar and observing the world around him, “Dig the street of life.” Dean’s verbal wonderment captures not only the central metaphor of the work, but the hope for beatnik happiness amid a world of inescapable restrictions...
...Kerouac, the fun was undeniably in the journey. Getting there was almost immaterial. Life—or a life worth living—was made up of the wild adventures one found on the road...
...BOXER SHORTS: Kirkus is rhapsodic about "The Shadow Boxer," a debut novel by Steven Heighton (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin; February 25), giving it a starred review. "The ghosts of Jack London, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac all hover approvingly over a terrific first novel by Heighton, an Ontario poet and story writer...One of the finest coming of age tales in recent years, and a splendid novelistic debut by a writer who seems to be just now entering a most impressive maturity." Author tour...
...Sputnik in the title is derived from a character who confuses it with novelist Jack Kerouac (a beatnik), a hero of the heroine who turns out to be quite spacey herself; a pun is also intended since sputnik in Russian means "fellow traveler." Sumire, a compulsive wanna-be writer, is loved by a young male teacher but she herself has an unrequited crush on an older woman. On a trip to a Greek island with her "girlfriend," the sapphic Sumire disappears "just like smoke." And what has started out as a boy-loves-girl-loves-girl love story winds...