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- Inspired by a 10,000-word rambling letter from his friend, Neal Cassady, Kerouac, in 1950, outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady, as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz.
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Nov 24, 2014 · Known as the "Joan Anderson Letter," the 18-page, single-spaced, stream of consciousness note from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac was found amid the dusty papers of a now-closed publishing...
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Mar 11, 2022 · A letter dated March 25, 1957, from Jack Kerouac to Neal Cassady. Of the prose in an earlier letter from Cassady, Kerouac had written, “No Dreiser, no Wolfe has come too close to it;...
Oct 5, 2018 · “[F]ast, mad, confessional, completely serious,” Kerouac called Cassady in a 1968 Paris Review interview; he is remembered as the inspiration for Dean Moriarty, the central character in Kerouac’s 1957 breakthrough novel On the Road.
Nov 25, 2014 · The famous “Joan Anderson” letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac has been found in Southern California. Cassady apparently wrote the letter to Kerouac in a drug-fueled, sex-crazed...
Nov 24, 2014 · The 16,000-word missive from his friend Neal Cassady that prompted Kerouac to toss his early drafts and rewrite the novel in a propulsive, stream-of-consciousness style has resurfaced in a...
Inspired by a 10,000-word rambling letter from his friend, Neal Cassady, Kerouac, in 1950, outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady, as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz. [5]
Aug 20, 2021 · But after the completion of "The Town and the City" and his receiving Neal Cassidy's "Joan Anderson Letter" in December 1950, his ambition sharpened. Kerouac now believed that through spontaneous prose it was possible to cause a revolution in American letters.
