Good Blonde and Others

By: Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley (Preface by)

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Paperback | 1 January 1993

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Cultural Writing. Autobiography. Essay.

In this book of previously uncollected writings, Jack Kerouac gives us another helping of his unique autobiographical storytelling and idiosyncratic takes on life. In these musings and stories we see Kerouac as he hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides a bus through the Northwest and Montana, reflects on the Beats and jazz and bop and provides "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose," throws in a comparison of Shakespeare and James Joyce for good measure, and generally responds throughout the book to the prompt "What Am I Thinking About?"

Kerouac's science fiction vision of the future, "cityCityCITY," has been added to this newly revised edition.

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Thinking of Jack: A Preface
On the Road
Good Blonde	p. 3
Introduction to The Americans	p. 19
On the Road to Florida	p. 24
The Great American Bus Ride	p. 31
The Rumbling, Rambling Blues	p. 40
On the Beats
Aftermath: The Philosophy of the Beat Generation	p. 47
Lamb, No Lion	p. 51
On the Origins of a Generation	p. 55
On Writing
Essentials of Spontaneous Prose	p. 69
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose	p. 72
On Poets and Poetics	p. 74
Are Writers Made or Born?	p. 77
Written Address to the Italian Judge	p. 80
Shakespeare and the Outsider	p. 84
Biographical Notes	p. 90
"Among the Fantastic Wits..."	p. 92
Observations
Manhattan Sketches	p. 99
Not Long Ago Joy Abounded at Christmas	p. 114
Home at Christmas	p. 117
The Beginning of Bop	p. 126
Nosferatu (Dracula)	p. 132
On Sports
Ronnie on the Mound	p. 139
Three for the St. Petersburg Independent	p. 147
In the Ring	p. 151
Last Words
The Last Word	p. 159
The First Word	p. 189
"What Am I Thinking About?"	p. 192
Editor's Note	p. 199
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