Centennial Edition of Ground-breaking Kerouac Bio to be Published   When Memory Babe first appeared from Grove Press in 1983, Library Journal wrote: “To call this book the definitive Kerouac biography is an understatement … [it is] all-inclusive and richly detailed. The reader’s immersion in Kerouac’s thoughts, moves, and mess-ups is so total that one […]

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“. . .And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . These purblind Doomsters had as readily strownBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.” To the Editor (New York Times): It’s clear in context that “had” means “might have.” The poet isn’t saying that chance and time did offer blisses along with pain. He’s saying […]