Day: July 24, 2010

It was Paul Maher’s Kerouac biography - or the Ann Charter one - or maybe even Kerouac’s On The Road that first introduced me to William S. Burroughs. Burroughs was one of the key figures of the Beat Generation which Kerouac served (quite reluctantly) as chairman of the board. Like Ginserg, Kerouac, Huncke, and a few others, Burroughs …

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Kafka said that what we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the …

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