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Beat Letters, Literary Ink
By
Sadie Stein
September 18, 2012
On the Shelf
Check out
this letter from Jack Kerouac
to his editor, in which the Beat presses for publication of
On the Road
.
Librarians with literary tattoos
!
While we’re at it,
writers in underpants
. (No exclamation mark.)
Books You’ve Never Heard of By Authors You Have
. (Spoiler: you may have actually heard of a few of them, but you get the idea.)
“
An audio version
[of
Gravity’s Rainbow
] does exist, though it came from the time of cassettes, not MP3s. The book was recorded in 1986 by
George Guidall
… it runs to 34 hours.”
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