{"id":100673,"date":"2016-07-22T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=100673"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:32:36","slug":"a-big-glooby-blob-of-sad-blufush-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/22\/a-big-glooby-blob-of-sad-blufush-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Glooby Blob of Sad Blufush, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100676\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/p20-kerouac-photo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100676\" class=\"wp-image-100676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/p20-kerouac-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/p20-kerouac-photo.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/p20-kerouac-photo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerouac photographed by John Cohen, 1959. Image via <em>The Spectator<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember that time Henry James met Winston Churchill? The encounter took place in December, 1914, when Churchill was forty years old and James, his elder by three decades, was still a year from the stroke that would have him signing letters as Napoleon to arrange for \u201cthe decoration of certain apartments and palaces &#8230; of the Louvre and the Tuileries.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/henry-james-late-phase\" target=\"_blank\">According to Louis Menand<\/a>, \u201cChurchill had no idea who James was, found him tedious, and behaved crudely.\u201d After the event, James told his host, Violet Bonham Carter\u2014a friend of Churchill, daughter of the prime minister, and grandmother of Helena\u2014that the \u201cinteresting\u201d experience had \u201cbrought home to me, very forcibly and vividly \u2026 the limitations by which men of genius \u2026 purchase their ascendancy \u2026 over mankind.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1931, during what he described as his wilderness years, Churchill launched an American speaking tour in an effort to make back the money he\u2019d lost in the stock-market crash two years earlier. While crossing Fifth Avenue in New York, Churchill looked the wrong way for traffic and was hit by a taxi, an accident he later wrote up as \u201cMy New York Misadventure,\u201d which essay he sold to the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> for twenty-five hundred dollars. (Yes: about forty thousand dollars in today\u2019s money.) Earlier that year, some three hundred and fifty miles from the site of Churchill\u2019s lucrative debilitation, the hard-bop jazz pianist Conrad Yeatis \u201cSonny\u201d Clark was born in a Pennsylvania coal patch. Clark\u2019s career was often torturous, in no small part thanks to the heroin addiction that killed him in 1963. But he found a wide following in Japan, and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/sonny-clark-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">as Sam Stephenson wrote for the Daily in 2011<\/a>, \u201cno jazz pianist was more drenched in minor blues\u201d than he was. Clark would have been eighty-five yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark released <em>Sonny\u2019s Crib,<\/em> with John Coltrane on the tenor saxophone, in 1957, the same year Jack Kerouac published <em>On the Road.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/07\/the-picture-that-captures-why-jack-kerouac-will-last-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\">For Geoff Dyer<\/a>, \u201cthere has never been a better-looking male writer. The Kerouac of the 1950s\u2014athletic, muscular forearms emerging from plaid shirt, dark hair roughly quiffed\u2014could step into a bar in Brooklyn today and he\u2019d still look hip.\u201d But Kerouac\u2019s time at the top was brief: \u201cFrom the moment his achievement was recognized his talent was in decline. He became imprisoned by the method of composition\u2014spontaneous prose\u2014that had liberated him. The breakthrough that enabled him to become a great writer condemned him to often being a pretty terrible one. Sinking into alcoholism, living with his mum in Florida and Massachusetts, he became \u2018a big glooby blob of sad blufush.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kerouac\u2019s father, a French Canadian printer, died of stomach cancer in 1946, the same year a former domestic servant from Scotland gave birth to the man who last night became the Republican Party\u2019s official candidate for president of the United States. About that last fact you may read a word or two today, but in the midst of the frenzy let us not forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v38\/n15\/julian-barnes\/at-the-fondation-custodia\" target=\"_blank\">the welcome counsel of Julian Barnes<\/a>,\u00a0namely that \u201cthis has been a rich time to explore nineteenth-century Scandinavian painting.\u201d A new show at the Fondation Custodia, in Paris, includes paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, a Danish painter who studied under Jacques-Louis David. \u201cThe Paris show,\u201d Barnes says, reveals Eckersberg \u201cto be always securely himself, yet frequently on the move.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that time Henry James met Winston Churchill? The encounter took place in December, 1914, when Churchill was forty years old and James, his elder by three decades, was still a year from the stroke that would have him signing letters as Napoleon to arrange for \u201cthe decoration of certain apartments and palaces &#8230; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[1761,153,5127,4446,1662,7137],"class_list":["post-100673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-geoff-dyer","tag-henry-james","tag-jack-kerouac","tag-julian-barnes","tag-sonny-clark","tag-winston-churchill"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dyer on Kerouac: \u201cThere Has Never Been a Better-Looking Male Writer\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This and more in today\u2019s roundup.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/22\/a-big-glooby-blob-of-sad-blufush-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Big Glooby Blob of Sad Blufush, and Other News by Robert P. 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