Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir. Joyce Johnson

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir


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  • Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
  • Joyce Johnson
  • Page: 304
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  • ISBN: 9781440621246
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
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Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts are now beginning to be recognized for their own roles in forging the Beat movement and for their daring attempts to live as freely as did the men in their circle a decade before Women's Liberation. Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made

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Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters . In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, Door Wide new information to twice-told tales, and recasts Kerouac from a beat to a writer. the tertulia
Her memoir Minor Characters, about being on the fringes of the Beat Movement in the 1960s, as well as growing up in New York City, has proven the ideal  'Beat Women': An Exchange - The New York Review of Books
But The Voice Is All wasn't written as a further contribution to Beat Joyce Johnson's memoir, Minor Characters (1983, not “1987”), about her  The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock'N'Rolll - Google Books Result
Women of the Beat Generation (Conari Press/hardcover/366 pages) was one love with Jack Kerouac, and has written a riveting memoir (Minor Characters) of  Joyce Johnson on "Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir" | To the best
Joyce Johnson won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her book, "Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir." She talks with Anne Strainchamps  An Interview with Jack Kerouac's Biographer | NYCityWoman.com
In 1983 Joyce wrote about her relationship with the beat writers and the place of women in that coterie in her award-winning memoir, Minor Characters.



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