Empty Phantoms : Collected Interviews with Jack Kerouac
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Empty Phantoms gathers together, for the first time in one volume, the best of printed, recorded, and filmed interviews -- including those celebrated, infamous, or obscure -- with the acclaimed American writer and father of the Beats Jack Kerouac.
Editor Paul Maher, one of the leading young lions of Kerouac scholarship, has scoured newspapers to glean interviews unseen for decades. Although many top-notch journalists, from Mike Wallace to William F. Buckley, conducted the interviews, it is Kerouac who dominates the proceedings, with his energy, wit, passion, anger, astute insights, playfulness, literary integrity, and searching spirituality. Best of all, the interviews are replete with Kerouacisms ("Walking on water wasn't built in a day," "Wisdom is heartless," "Pity dogs and forgive men,") that have been a cherished aspect of his literature.
Nowhere else is such a living portrait of Kerouac available beyond his own works.
Empty Phantoms: Collected Interviews with Jack Kerouac,Paul Maher,Thunder's Mouth Press,1560256583,20th century,Authors, American,Beat generation,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Interviews,Literary,Biography & Autobiography / Literary
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