{"id":41,"date":"2021-03-19T09:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2023-02-23T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:15:52","slug":"kerouac-meets-burroughs-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac Meets Burroughs On the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>by<\/em> <em>Arthur S. Nusbaum <em><strong>\u00a9<\/strong><\/em><\/em> <em>1993<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I wrote this densely footnoted (61, count &#8217;em, 61!) essay during 1992-3. It focuses on a passage right in the middle of Kerouac&#8217;s <em>On the Road<\/em> text as first published in 1957; the author (&#8220;Sal Paradise&#8221;) along with Neal Cassady (&#8220;Dean Moriarty&#8221;) visits with William S. Burroughs (&#8220;Old Bull Lee&#8221;) &amp; his family in Algiers, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans in early 1949. A close reading of this passage finds that it condenses &amp; anticipates most of the significant themes of WSB&#8217;s life &amp; work.<\/p>\n<p>Read this essay below, or click on this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdmindbooks.com\/pdf\/Kerouac Meets Burroughs On the Road.pdf\">Kerouac Meets Burroughs On the Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fine First Editions of many of the biographical &amp; critical works cited are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdmindbooks.com\/\">Third Mind Books<\/a>. A chapbook version of the essay is available for purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdmindbooks.com\/pages\/books\/5134\/william-s-burroughs-jack-kerouac\/jack-kerouac-meets-william-s-burroughs-on-the-road\">in store or online<\/a> also.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Kerouac-Meets-Burroughs-On-the-Road.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:1111px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Kerouac-Meets-Burroughs-On-the-Road.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e9886e9e-f963-4a13-a8d4-ed55d0fe6bff\" href=\"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Kerouac-Meets-Burroughs-On-the-Road.pdf\">Kerouac-Meets-Burroughs-On-the-Road<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5134-677x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5134-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5134-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5134-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5134-1015x1536.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5134.jpg 1322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Published in 2022 by our colleague Kevin Ring of the Beat Scene Press in the United Kingdom as the 75th installment of their Pocket Book Series<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>$35.00<\/strong><br>#5134 at TMB<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logo-1024x121.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logo-1024x121.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logo-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logo.png 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this densely footnoted (61, count &#8217;em, 61!) essay during 1992-3.  It focuses on a passage right in the middle of Kerouac&#8217;s On the Road text as first published in 1957, where the author (&#8220;Sal Paradise&#8221;), along with Neal Cassady (&#8220;Dean Moriarty&#8221;) visits with William S. Burroughs (&#8220;Old Bull Lee&#8221;) &#038; his family in Algiers, LA just outside New Orleans in early 1949.  A close reading of this passage condenses &#038; anticipates most of the significant themes of WSB&#8217;s life &#038; work.  Fine First Editions of many of the biographical &#038; critical works sited are available in the initial inventory of TMB. To read this essay you must have Adobe Reader and click on this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdmindbooks.com\/pdf\/Kerouac Meets Burroughs On the Road.pdf\">Kerouac Meets Burroughs On the Road<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-articles","category-gerneral-articles","tag-the-beats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsbeat.thirdmindbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}