Monday, August 9, 2010

Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of on the Road

Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of on the Road Review


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Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of ON THE ROAD is a memoir written by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with Jack Kerouac, whom he taught at the New School in NewYork when Jack was emerging as a writer and with Allen Ginsberg, both of whom Lenrow befriended and encouraged. Lenrow writes with sympathy and charm about both writers and their 'beat' friends, revealing Kerouac s seriously academic side by sharing papers he wrote in his course and giving insight about both writers through letters and poems they shared or wrote in Lenrow s apartment. In her preface, Katherine Burkman, editor and cousin to Lenrow, gives a context for the memoir, expanding on Lenrow s gifts as a teacher while Lenrow s niece, Barbara Phillips, adds further insights. Howard Cunnell s Introduction offers excellent material on the young Kerouac s development, partly under Lenrow s tutelage. An appendix of Ginsberg s handwritten letters to Elbert, typewritten in the memoir, reveals the drama of his own handwriting and the enormous warmth in his relationship with Elbert over a period of many years. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.


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