Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnsonis an American author of fiction and nonfiction who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Minor Characters about her relationship with Jack Kerouac...
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Nothing ever happened except God.
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I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.
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I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.