Some Perspective on Kerouac’s America
Perhaps it took the cold war to end for the Beat canon to be inducted into the graces of good criticism. The dizzying commodification of the Beat style popped up, as an immediate archetype: the...
View ArticleThe Invention and Disintegration of a Myth
“I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity.” ― David Foster Wallace “There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.” ―...
View ArticleFrom “It” to the “Void,” Or How We Resurrected the Beat Mythology
I recently wrote an essay for a literary arts publication called Brev Spread out of the Bay Area. The editor had read a blog entry I wrote on my experiences reading the Beats and he asked me if I would...
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