David Daniel
Because they were masters of performance, metamorphosis, and movement — of “containing multitudes” — Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan are the closest peers to Whitman America has yet produced.
Over the years, Lee Gutkind has been one of the most persistent and impassioned voices making the case for the value of creative nonfiction.
In “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac voiced a longing to be “other.” He achieves this transfiguration in “Pic.”
Jack Kerouac’s best work is often driven by a hunger for spiritual nourishment: the soul food his protagonists occasionally find in friendships, in jazz, in oceanic moments of oneness.
“For a writer the important thing is to write. The second important thing is the resonance of a reaction, a response. Without an audience, you’re basically locked in your cavern.”
All of the characters in Back to the Dirt are, in a sense, survivalists, people clinging onto what’s long gone, stockpiling karma for an apocalypse that is already upon them.
Book Review: One More Round with Norman Mailer
In his centennial year, it’s difficult not to see that Norman Mailer’s literary standing is at an inflection point.
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