I’ll eat my words

24th September, 2009 - Posted by Horatia - 2 Comments

In the annals of lost manuscripts, possibly far too few have been lost to posterity through devourment. (Some say the world might be a better place if authors were more often compelled to perform this operation literally, rather than leaving the activity solely the preserve of bookworms and mice.) An heroic exception is the Danish » Read More

On the typewriter

23rd August, 2009 - Posted by Horatia - No Comments

On 22 April 1951, Jack Kerouac finished typing the first draft of On the Road, the novel that would eventually be published in 1957 and distil the generation that Kerouac himself had already defined as “beat”. On The Road is a story of Kerouac’s true-life friendship with Neal Cassady and their four trips across the » Read More