Jack Kerouac

[Joe Fields]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBILjdzkpzU

[begin_within]

1. Thanks - my favorite author

[Joe Fields]

3. Mine, too. He's what got me to want to write.

I tried to write like him and failed miserably.

[Joe Fields]

6. Hi! Fancy meeting you here...

:bounce:

[WCGreen]

22. Yea him and Hunter S. ruined my writing style for about ten

years...

Listen to On the Road as read by David Carradine the next time you take a long trip...

[wildhorses]

4. bob -- i love your sigline

those are some great pix.

[Joe Fields]

7. Oops...Hi! Fancy meeting you here...

I was meeting myself a little bit ago, but I corrected it. Like Kerouac?:bounce:

[wildhorses]

9. it is a small world, after all

hey jack kerouac ;)

:*:hug::*








edited to add a smilie:)

[Joe Fields]

11. not small enough to suit me yet, but I'm workin' on it.....

:blush:

[begin_within]

10. Thanks

although I didn't take any of them.

[wildhorses]

12. well, it is gorgeous. absolutely breathtaking.

i have been thinking about changing mine as of late:shrug:

need some inspiration, i guess.

anyway yours is a pleasure to the eye.

:hi:

[janx]

2. A prose poet, no doubt. n/t

[Joe Fields]

8. A stream of consciousness writer, with a poet's heart.

[begin_within]

13. Yeah, he invented a new form of writing, a hybrid of

prose and poetry that he called "spontaneous bop prosody."

[mitchum]

14. "That's not writing; that's typing" Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac

[Joe Fields]

17. sounds like new york elitist writer's snobbery to me.

Not all new yorkers were elitists, but Capote was.

[Bryan]

20. And he was wrong about Kerouac's habits, for that matter

From William Burroughs' "Remembering Jack Kerouac":

"Tell me how many books a writer has written... we can assume usually ten times that amount shelved or thrown away. And I will tell you how he spends his time: Any writer spends a good deal of his time alone, writing. And that is how I remember Kerouac-as a writer talking about writers or sitting in a quiet corner with a notebook, writing in longhand. <...> You feel that he was writing all the time; that writing was the only thing he thought about. He never wanted to do anything else."

[mitchum]

23. But according to Capote , he also was not part of an elite new york writers clique...

Capote caught a lot of hell for his assertion that "the New York literary scene is controlled by a Jewish Mafia"
I don't agree with Capote, but he certainly did not consider himself a member of a new york elite.

I think that Capote's problem with Kerouac was that they were both essentially stylists, but Capote thought that Kerouac's style was extremely limited (by choice)

I have always enjoyed both writers, but I honestly feel that Capote's work can teach one far more about the craft of writing. All Kerouac can teach one is how to write like Jack Kerouac.

[VenusRising]

5. I thought it would be this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJLyWomZNq8

[mitchum]

15. Pity that he ended his days as a drunken right wing reactionary...

booze is BAD stuff

[Joe Fields]

18. a victim of celebrity status, which he despised.

[City of Mills]

16. His writing is unbelievably personal to me...

Considering I grew up in Lowell and lived in the same French-Canadian neighborhood in Pawtucketville.

[Joe Fields]

19. his writing and my life paralelled each other for quite some time.

[Heidi]

21. One of my favorite writers _ever_. Thank you!

:kick: