Gerald Nicosia
Gerald Nicosia
Gerald Nicosiais an author, poet, journalist, interviewer, and literary critic...
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He was one of the first to treat these people as serious American writers, ... Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac.
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Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.