October 22, 2012

Kerouac's Music

His writing caught the breathless exuberance of natural speech

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Jack Kerouac, New York City, 1953

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Allen Ginsberg, Corbis

Jack Kerouac, New York City, 1953

By John Tytell

Kerouac's Music

Allen Ginsberg, Corbis

Jack Kerouac, New York City, 1953

Last year the Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon used Jack Kerouac's name as a verb in The New Yorker, explaining that he had immigrated because he "thought it might be fun to Kerouac