{"id":8491,"date":"2013-09-10T19:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/recent-writing-on-kerouac\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:11:35","slug":"recent-writing-on-kerouac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/recent-writing-on-kerouac\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Writing on Kerouac"},"content":{"rendered":"

October is Kerouac month hereabouts, but aficionados will want to read the recent  Football and the Fall of Jack Kerouac<\/a>, a New Yorker<\/em> piece that raises the question of the contribution of football-induced brain trauma to Kerouac's decline and early death.<\/span><\/p>\n

In The New Criterion<\/em>, Bruce Bawer lays into<\/a> Kerouac's poetry with some justification:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grimly reconciled though one may be to the annual flood of books by and about the Beat Generation, it\u2019s particularly depressing to see Jack Kerouac\u2019s poetry, of all things, enshrined in the Library of America, that magnificent series designed to preserve for posterity the treasures of our national literature. To read through these seven hundred\u2013odd pages of Kerouac\u2019s staggeringly slapdash effusions set in elegant Galliard, outfitted with the usual meticulous editorial apparatus, and bound\u2014like Twain\u2019s novels and Lincoln\u2019s speeches\u2014in a beautiful Library of America volume is enough to trigger a serious attack of cognitive dissonance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

David Ulin of the L. A. Times<\/em> responds<\/a> to Bawer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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October is Kerouac month hereabouts, but aficionados will want to read the recent  Football and the Fall of Jack Kerouac, a New Yorker piece that raises the question of the contribution of football-induced brain trauma to Kerouac's decline and early death. In The New Criterion, Bruce Bawer lays into Kerouac's poetry with some justification: Grimly reconciled … Continue reading “Recent Writing on Kerouac”<\/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":[202,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","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=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}