644 Jack Kerouac (with Steven Belletto)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, Books, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Critics didn't know quite what to make of twentieth-century American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), but readers had less difficulty. In spite of mixed reviews, On the Road (1957) quickly became a kind of bible for anyone hoping to squeeze more out of life. In this episode, Jacke talks to Steven Belletto, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac, about the continuing fascination with the Beat Generation and its most famous avatar. Additional listening: 339 Jack Kerouac 619 Novelist Fred Waitzkin Discusses Kerouac 283 Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Top 10 Literary Modes of Transportation (with Mike Palindrome) The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at ⁠gabrielruizbernal.com⁠. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hey Music Lover, it's time for Zom Tom B Bona jamming to some yacht rock.
0:15.0	Open for fun.
0:17.0	Gonna old school with some beat bop.
0:19.0	Bicke, 90. If you like your tunes more vibing playing can be exciting till you feel the need for
0:26.6	dancing
0:29.6	I'm for drum and bass oh just 110 pounds!
0:33.0	Tom Bola!
0:34.0	Open for fun!
0:36.0	Terms apply 18 plus.
0:38.0	Please play safely.
0:39.0	Hello London erects a statue of Oscar Wilde that his grandson calls quote
0:45.1	absolutely hideous. Stephen Balleto, the editor of the Cambridge Guide to
0:51.3	Jack Kerouac stops by to discuss Kerouac then, now and forever, and a listener
0:56.6	from the Himalayas checks in.
0:59.2	That's all coming up today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson. Let's start in Chelsea
1:19.9	London where an enormous sculpture has been unveiled near the former home of playwright,
1:27.8	wit, and general man about town, Oscar Wilde. Also, the highly mimmable and incessantly quoted,
1:36.6	occasionally misquoted or misattributed Oscar Wilde. We've covered Oscar many times here from his mother Sparanza,
1:46.0	to his own plays and poetry, to his childhood,
1:50.0	to his horrible trial, and his persecution and prosecution.
1:55.0	It's hard not to wish that Oscar Wilde had been born a hundred years later
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