jack and joyce johnson outside the kettle of fish in 1958
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William S. Burroughs photographed by Gerald Malanga.
William S. Burroughs and Joe Strummer
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Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
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Michael Kammen reflects on his friendship with Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson’s new biography The Voice is All, with a never-before-published letter from Kerouac to Kammen:
Why do we need a substantial new look at Jack Kerouac now, that largely ends late in 1951 with the completion of his best-known book, On the Road, which did not actually appear until 1957 when his oeuvre was blossoming but his melancholy decline began? Why indeed. First, because all but one previous biography are highly unsatisfactory, misleading about meanings and events, and not adequately based upon the abundant Kerouac archive.
J. Kerouac
