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...become college and university teachers, notably in science. Just for variety, Reed also lists such odd alumni as a talented writer who became a convicted stickup artist, a union organizer who went on to translate the Iliad, and the Zen-loving model for one of Novelist Jack Kerouac's chief characters...
...matters of finance this is their intention, since the supermarket society is what they have disaffiliated from. But in literature it is merely their embarrassment. Here the best to be said for the YADs is that among them are Allen Ginsberg (Howl). Gregory Corso (Fried Shoes) and Jack Kerouac (On the Road). And the best to be said for these three is that each might have done something worth reading if he had not been lured by the sirens of faucet composition and second-growth Dada...
...sadder cases in point can be cited than James (From Here to Eternity) Jones and Jack (On the Road) Kerouac...
fiction. Yet today, four books and some 2,700 pages later. James Jones, at 42. looks more and more like a one-shot author. And irrepressible Jack Kerouac, 40. twelve volumes and some 2,200 pages from his first success, seems a confirmed one-vein literary minor...
...Jack Kerouac-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...