/lit/ - Literature

Was he based after all?

>>21883979
Besides being a Canuck and coming from a drinking family. He began drinking during all the adventures and "kicks" that take place in his books.

He was also deeply insecure, his little brother died when they were both young, and his father died early in his life also he didn't see success in his writing for 7+ years since he road on the road.

After OTR was published he became an overnight success. He went from a nobody to the "father of the beat generation" despite the adventures he was a relatively shy guy, and after publication everyone wanted a piece of him, all the beatniks wanted to party with him, but more importantly all the news, media and newspapers came after him trying to pin him as the face of beatnik degradation, he only wanted to be known as a great writer, not a degenerate. To cope with all this he turned to drinking and became reclusive to everyone. He was "ravaged by the bitch goddess success"

Poor ti Jean

Why does /lit/ hate Beat writers so much?

The way you guys talk to each other is actually very Beatesque

>here are multiple novels and short stories about my life when I lived in a car and spent my days doing drugs, fucking some chick my buddy was also fucking and sometimes we'd fuck her at the same time and ride naked in the car together while smoking pot.
>Noooo wtf I'm not a hippie wtf why would you think that, you're getting the wrong message from my work, I'm a staunchly conservative man and you're all crazy hippies

>>13023197
Hahahahaha, imagine the retarded look on OPs face now

Where does one start with poetry?

Why is a wine alcoholic worse than a whiskey alcoholic?