The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac,

[Allan Balliett]

Available in audio from Audible, for anyone who, like me, is finding it
increasingly difficult to read while driving. -Allan in WV

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:58 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Joyce Johnson’s new biography of Beat writer Jack Kerouac vies for
> room on a crowded shelf. Over the years, the literary industry
> surrounding Kerouac has produced several gems, among them Johnson’s
> own 1983 memoir, Minor Characters (winner of the National Book Critics
> Circle Award), which chronicled her affair with Kerouac and the lives
> of the other women who hitched themselves to the Beats—all the while
> holding down jobs, warming up pea soup, emptying ashtrays, suffering
> indifferent sex, and patiently awaiting the return of their wayward
> men. Part of the charm of Minor Characters was Johnson’s
> acknowledgment of how young and out of her depth she had been, a point
> made even more painfully clear in her letters to Kerouac, collected in
> Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957–1958.
>
> Yet, with so much already said about Kerouac, Johnson’s latest effort
> struggles to justify itself.
>
> http://theamericanscholar.org/kerouac-in-his-own-words/
>
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