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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Joyce Johnson ebook
ISBN: 9781440621246
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Page: 304
Format: pdf

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell. She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo. In the first of TLM's author interviews series, the Editors sat down with Larry Closs, author of Beatitude, a novel of friendship, love, and idolatry of the Beat Generation, to discuss themes of masculinity and literature, then and now. And more knowing view of his "narcissism" and other problems -- by Joyce Johnson, who was Kerouac's girlfriend when On the Road was published, and went on to write her own fine Beat memoir, Minor Characters. Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson. At least one salacious study posits Kerouac as a cad, pushing the women into misguided behavior. One of the seemingly minor characters in the movie is the seamstress of Mary Todd Lincoln. Minor Characters is supposed to be a memoir about being a female during the Beat Generation. The best and most evocative book, Johnson's “Minor Characters,” set the high bar for a history of the women of the Beat era. Banking on the marketability of Kerouac's name or with personal axes to grind, wives Edie Parker and Joan Haverty wrote books. A more However, her two memoirs—Minor Characters (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award) and Door Wide Open—both of which hinge on her brief romance with Kerouac, remain popular long after their release in paperback. No fewer than seven memoirs by women married to or connected with the central men informed Rivera's script. The real woman, Elizabeh “Lizzie” Keckley, wrote a memoir after the war.