Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The Weekend: Kerouac and Serial Monogamy

A few months ago I read Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters, a memoir about her brief love affair with Jack Kerouac circa 1957, just before he became a celebrity following the publication of his finest book, On the Road.  As the story goes, Johnson, then Joyce Glassman, was a young woman from a “nice” family, working […]