Thursday, March 13, 2014

Exploring Jack Kerouac's Unfinished Works

HuffPost Books



Back when I was a teenager, I found myself drawn to the sprawling tape culture of Grateful Dead performances--an archive of staggering enormity to which Dick Latvala and David Lemieux have since brought a sense of indexical order. D.T. Max has used the term "maximalist" to describe the epic ambitions of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and The Pale King, and that's how I initially felt about the archive of the Dead--that it was seeking out a course that transcended the component parts of each preserved performance.

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