In Memoriam for Jack Kerouac on this day when he finally went to that Big Beat Jazz Cafe in 7th Heaven crooning sweet sounds and easy riffs.If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup of coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_apoetrychannel
A haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Dr. Sax is the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”
Jack Kerouac, the father of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. He attended Columbia University, briefly, on a football scholarship, but an injury forced him to quit after his freshman season. After dropping out of university, Kerouac continued to live in New York City, where he would meet Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs, the future stars of the Beat Generation. Kerouac’s first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950 and received good reviews but little attention; was the publication of his second novel, On the Road (1957), that would ultimately win him literary celebrity. He is the author of many books including On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, Tristessa, Lonesome Traveler, Desolation Angels, Dr. Sax, and Mexico City Blues, as well as the co-author with William S. Burroughs of the previously unpublished novel And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks. Kerouac died of an internal hemorrhage on this day due to liver failure, in 1969.
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