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Gerald Nicosia: In Search of Jack Kerouac in the Bleak Inhuman Loneliness

You would have to be dead or in a coma to have missed the fact that March 12, 2022, marked the centenary of the birth of writer and lonesome traveller Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road. To mark the occasion, Leon Horton talks to the writer and scholar Gerald Nicosia, author of Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century, Beat Scrapbook,and the sublime and authoritative Memory Babe: A Critical Biography…