Books by Joyce Johnson
“Joyce Johnson’s brilliant, clear eyed, non-romantic memoir of her life with Kerouac is a great corrective to the kind of hero-worshipping I indulged in as a young man reading On the Road. Fondly, she gets in all his vulnerability, shyness, and colossal single mindedness—or selfishness, if you prefer.” Read more...
Howard Cunnell, Novelist
Interviews where books by Joyce Johnson were recommended
The Best Jack Kerouac Books, recommended by Howard Cunnell
Jack Kerouac—drifter, womaniser, giant of American literature—became a Beat Generation icon after the publication of On the Road in 1957. But his experimental, improvisatory prose is often misinterpreted as artless “typing,” as Howard Cunnell, Kerouac scholar and author of a new memoir Sun Country, explains. Here he recommends five books that offer a better understanding of Kerouac’s ambition and range as a writer.
