{"id":38674,"date":"2012-09-18T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=38674"},"modified":"2012-09-18T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:35:18","slug":"beat-letters-literary-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/beat-letters-literary-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Letters, Literary Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/kerouacboo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/kerouacboo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kerouacboo\" width=\"256\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/17\/newberry-library-celebrat_n_1890819.html?utm_hp_ref=books&amp;ir=Books#slide=1532926\" target=\"_blank\">this letter from Jack Kerouac<\/a> to his editor, in which the Beat presses for publication of <em>On the Road<\/em>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/141087\" target=\"_blank\">Librarians with literary tattoos<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>While we\u2019re at it, <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/slideshow-writers-in-underpants\/\" target=\"_blank\">writers in underpants<\/a>. (No exclamation mark.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2012\/09\/17\/genre-kryptonite-books-youve-never-heard-of-by-authors-you-have\/\" target=\"_blank\">Books You\u2019ve Never Heard of By Authors You Have<\/a>. (Spoiler: you may have actually heard of a few of them, but you get the idea.)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2012\/09\/gravitys-rainbow-the-missing-audiobook-it-was-recorded-in-1986-but-good-luck-findi\" target=\"_blank\">An audio version<\/a> [of <em>Gravity\u2019s Rainbow<\/em>]\u00a0does exist, though it came from the time of cassettes, not MP3s. The book was recorded in 1986 by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeguidall.com\/\">George Guidall<\/a> \u2026 it\u00a0runs to 34 hours.\u201d<\/li>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019re at it, writers in underpants. (No exclamation mark.) Books You\u2019ve Never Heard of By Authors You Have. (Spoiler: you may have actually heard of a few of them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8668,17,5127,8669,149,7723,1024,4386],"class_list":["post-38674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-beats","tag-books","tag-jack-kerouac","tag-librarians","tag-news","tag-roundup","tag-tattoos","tag-thomas-pynchon"],"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>Beat Letters, Literary Ink by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 18, 2012 \u2013 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! 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