SLPAD - unnumbered query on writers

[Michael Bailey]

Back to the intro

“I wasn’t the only one writing then who felt some need to stretch, to step
out.”

I’m dabbling around trying to formulate a query to search on, which would
pick up the ones he would likely mean.

He covered it in general terms already, mentioning Kerouac and Mailer & a
couple others as inspirations.

But would there be like a clade of those who were, like him, in the late
‘50s-early ‘60s relative younguns, feeling that inspiration, & wanting to
stretch their horizons?

Philip Roth and John Barth I think were mostly writing about what they knew
at that point, & quite a bit afterwards.

As Curly sez, “I’m tryin’ ta think, but nothing happens!”