>Yeah Its okay to always be broke and living off of crumbs and beer and never have a stable relationship or job or life situation, that's what's IT!
and yet we know who he is and will never know who you are
>>25293821is it really great to be remembered as the guy who threw his life away for pretty much nothing
>>25293872>guy who threw his life away for pretty much nothingAh so like spike but gay
>>25293821actually I don't know who this fella is but he sounds based
>In Desolation Angels he wrote, "when I went to Columbia all they tried to teach us was Marx, as if I cared" (considering Marxism, like Freudianism, to be an illusory tangent)Based Jack
>>25293820>In addition to founding many of the today’s largest publishing companies, Jews became so influential throughout the industry that by the 1960s American writers as different as Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Katherine Anne Porter, and Mario Puzo began to complain about a “Jewish literary mafia.”>In interviews, Kerouac recalled incidents like his father physically attacking a rabbi on a New York street, a story he viewed through a lens of defensive Christian pride.> In his later, more isolated years in Florida, Kerouac expressed radical, conspiratorial views, even suggesting that the Russian Jewish diaspora was responsible for orchestrating the American Civil Rights Movement to distract from antisemitism
>>25294059>There's a Jewish literary mafia>Let me call my best friend, infamous jewish pederast Allan Ginsberg to talk about this
>>25294105In the postwar years, there were so many Jews in the American publishing industry that some writers began coining a phrase to describe them: “The literary mafia.”Such a belief, sometimes driven by antisemitism and sometimes by a general feeling of literary displacement and career frustration, was shared by figures including Truman Capote and Flannery O’Connor to describe the sensation they felt watching their Jewish peers like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick. In writings of the time period, they and other notable authors believed that powerful industry Jews were the cause behind any of their careers being stalled.Josh Lambert, author of The Literary Mafia, knows these figures well. His book begins with a bang: an angry, paranoid Jack Kerouac ranting about the Jews. Of course, Jewish success bred resentment, and Kerouac was hardly alone: Mario Puzo, Truman Capote, and Gore Vidal all ranted similarly. Jews were too powerful. They were hoarding “those juicy Guggenheim and Ford grants.” They formed a cartel—a kind of mafia. “A Jewish literary mafia?” Lambert asks with mock amazement. “Really?”Lambert is concerned with the not-so-innocent side of success: how Jews wielded power. To Lambert, power is suspect, a tool of exclusion, and his chapters brim with instances of cronyism and nepotism. Many seem benign—Jewish editors helping Jewish writers. A chapter on Lionel Trilling explores the great critic’s countless favors to younger writers. Trilling’s power was immense; with a few keystrokes, he could secure a job, a fellowship, even a Cambridge scholarship. Indeed, Trilling’s second job helping writers became a burden. He quit, exhausted. No more jacket blurbs, he declared.This might seem generous, even selfless, but Lambert suggests something darker—an “ethically dubious” pattern of favoritism. In activist mode, it finds a righteous purpose: exposing literary malefactors. The charges are all but read aloud as if at a literary tribunal. Philip Rahv—sexual harassment. Alfred Kazin—spousal abuse.To his credit, Lambert also notes the drawbacks of privilege, the burdens borne by fortunate children. They, too, are victims—of crushing pressure and expectations. Exhibit A is Jacob Epstein, who, fresh out of Yale, was apparently shoved into writing by the literary version of stage parents (Barbara and Jason Epstein of the New York Review of Books). Disaster followed when the young author was caught plagiarizing Martin Amis’s The Rachel Papers, which suggests, if nothing else, a novel form of revenge against one’s parents.
>>25294014this is literally fake though columbia has lithum and cc two semesters of each required and it was probably an even stronger syllabus when he attended. also you're typically registered in at least one as a freshman so even tho he didnt complete he likely took them
>>25293820there's definitely a strain of self-loathing that runs through his writings though
>>25294296Why tf are you copy-pasting ChatGPT slop on /lit/ of all places? Are you literally fucking retarded? Go to reddit to do that shit.
>>25293820This was my life in my early twenties lol. Jack inspired me too much.
>>25294406It's not ChatGPT, retard. Do you think em dashes were never used in writing before AI?https://jweekly.com/2022/07/29/what-was-the-jewish-literary-mafia-a-new-book-explores-a-common-myth-of-postwar-publishing/
>>25294105One doesn't preclude the other. In fact it was only through Ginsberg's connections that On the Road was even looked at for publishing.Adds credbility if anything.
>>25294713>published after 2022 Yep. Ai.
I love Kerouac but I just couldn't get through The Subterraneans, shit was way too dense. I've never read Big Sur either because I feel like it'll almost totally consist of his thoughts & musings and I'm much more a fan of his more kinetic sort of adventures y'know.
>>25294713>Common myth>JweeklySo detecting bias goes out the window when it comes to the chosen?
>>25294761No normie was using Ai in 2022. Cope, rajeesh
Kerouac was a right winger and anti semite, although he for some reason buddied up with ginsburg, a jewkerouac was the one who kicked off the counter culture, and he ended up hating it because he tought hippies were mega libtards, so he drank himself to death
>>25293820kerouac's appearance on william f buckley's firing line where he's wildly drunk and antisemitic to a jewish academic on the same panel as him will forever be his best work
>>25295154Anti-semites are very often friendly with Jewish people. Look at H.P.Lovecraft - not only his wife but many of his close friends were Jewish.
>>25293820Now he hit that bottle HARD
>>25294304What a pointless, confusing, and retarded post. I'm sure they did in fact try to teach him Marx. What you are saying is completely pointless.
>>25294763What's his best stuff? I started On the Road but it's not doing a lot for more so far.
>>25296008It's because we're both kind of intellectual and cerebral. I spent a week on a group vacation thing and we naturally split into groups and I realized at the end me and my dad were the only ones at our table who weren't Jewish. But we liked talking to them better and connected better on an intellectual level.
>>25293820Literally me!
>>25296008Jews are as different from each other as Christians or really most people in general. It's really hard to hate everyone and everything.
>>25293896Women will never understand my boy Spike.
Hippie degenerates have no idea that their hero Kerouac was a conservative Republican--who even liked Joseph McCarthy lol
>>25296275Tough to say if you’re not really vibing with On the Road. I loved Dharma Bums, that one has a lot more of him figuring out his spirituality, could be more interesting depending on what you’re looking for. There’s a lot more time at his parents’ house and in the mountains than seedy hotels in it if that gives a feel for the setting (though I do think there were still a couple seedy hotels).
>>25293820Broke during one of the most economically prosperous eras of America, where you could buy a home working as a janitor for a year, is wild.
>>25296280The huwhite man colluding with the Jew. It's over, isn't it. Jk.
>>25293820Kerouac worked. Merchant Mariner during WW2. Railroad brakeman after the war
>>25299179it was also one of the eras where being broke was at its most feasible
>>25299171Don't forget, Desolation Angels is the sequel to Dharma Bums.
