Jack KerouacJack Kerouac
a Few Nights : Nights Talking & Drinking With Jack
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Downloadable Audiobook, 2011
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2011, Unabridged., Available.Downloadable Audiobook, 2011
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2011, Unabridged., Available. Offered in 0 more formatsBefore McDonald's and Holiday Inn, Jack was on the road with his friends, when interstate highways were a novelty and going coast to coast was just fun doing so. Jack was pre-Vietnam, more 1950s edgy than 1960s politically correct. He loved Keats and Eliot as he sang the praises of the Odes and The Wasteland, bars and saloons, writers and barkeeps, all about equally according to the author who narrated about his short time with Jack on the road. Jack was open to all subjects, more a fan than critic, who did not see the point in being critical. "If you don't like it, why bother," said Jack. These few nights related to a Harvard College event honoring Jack. He went to high table at Lowell House, at Harvard, but clearly felt more comfortable in a South Boston style old hangout like Cronin's across the tracks...the MBTA tracks from Harvard. One hundred yards and a thousand miles, Jack takes a trip with his young rider, and author, up to New York to see some of Dreiser's landmarks from An American Tragedy. They get to the Adirondack area where the actual crime happened and Jack talked about the little glove factory still abandoned on Lake Cayuga. True, the author does not know; but he did know there was a glove factory and years later, he went to visit it. The author comments that many people doubted what Jack said. However, upon closer inspection, found him to be truthful. Jack just had a way of saying things that made the conventional nervous. This is good listening for readers and listeners, not academics.
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- [United States] : Simply Magazine : Made available through hoopla, 2011.
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