{"id":8388,"date":"2013-11-02T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-kerouacs-history-of-bop\/"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:45:21","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-kerouacs-history-of-bop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-kerouacs-history-of-bop\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Kerouac’s History of Bop"},"content":{"rendered":"

With good video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I told myself that, come November, I'd put Jack back in his box until next October.  But Kerouac month has bled over into November probably because seeing the movie  Big Sur<\/em> got me all stoked up again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is Herbert Gold<\/a>'s review of the book (Saturday Review<\/em>, 22 September 1962).<\/span><\/p>\n

And here<\/a> is nastly slap at Jack from a writer not much better, Edward Abbey:  "Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism."<\/span><\/p>\n

Cactus Ed on Updike:<\/span><\/p>\n

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John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing–like a faery breath!–upon the glass.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With good video I told myself that, come November, I'd put Jack back in his box until next October.  But Kerouac month has bled over into November probably because seeing the movie  Big Sur got me all stoked up again. Here is Herbert Gold's review of the book (Saturday Review, 22 September 1962). And here … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Kerouac’s History of Bop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}