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...demon, is swathed in multiple fictions. He is called Houlihan by Kesey-Deboree, who complicates matters by saying that Houlihan, rather than the real Cassady, was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road, as well as the prototype for Hart Kennedy in John Clellon Holmes' novel...
...updated Gothicism, hip drugginess and black humor of Naked Lunch established Burroughs' audience, composed mostly of young people. Norman Mailer compared reading Burroughs to "being in a room where three radios, two television sets, stereo hi-fi, a pornographic movie, and two automatic dishwashers are working at once." John Clellon Holmes called Burroughs' work "1984 written by W.C. Fields...
...JOHN CLELLON HOLMES, a friend and fellow novelist, called him "the great rememberer." But when we remember Jack Kerouac only 11 years after his alcoholic death, we too often remember the man and his fabulous stories, rather than his genius. Jack Kerouac was that kind of writer. His writing was so full of speed, his characters so powerful, his ideas so outrageous for the times that his fame is mostly owed to the characters and events he portrayed, not to the way he portrayed them...
...collection of Allen Ginsberg), the quotations, and the captions in Scenes: the book is published in a limited edition of 2000. (The Harvard Coop Bookstore has a small pile of copies available.) It's divided into three sections; the first focuses on Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, and Gregory Corso while they were living in New York just after World...
...care. He had had all the booze, all the drugs, all the women. And he could blow his horn so marvelously that, through him, jazz achieved a new dimension. But he wound up broke, sodden drunk, embittered; soon he would be dead. In The Horn, way-out Novelist John Clellon Holmes tries to suggest the forces that destroyed Edgar Pool. He does not succeed, but in failing he has still written the most interesting novel about the U.S. jazz world since Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn...