As evidenced by one of the most popular social networking websites, the cult of celebrity embraces Kerouac. His seminal Beat novel Go, also published sixty years ago (five years ahead of Jack Kerouac‘s On the Road), still remains in the shadow of Kerouac’s first book about those times.
To many, this is the sum of all Holmes is known for.
We recently passed a watershed moment in modern American literature, as November, 2012, marked sixty years since John Clellon Holmes introduced the term “Beat Generation” in the New York Times Magazine.
