One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Inspiration overload on the road One of my first impressive encounters with American literature was Jack Kerouac and his most famous book, On the Road. I was about 14, and because I had already been to
What the blurb says: "William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet, as years
They say you should start a new blog by writing something about yourself and the main stuff you want to write about. Don’t ask me who “they” are, but there are plenty of smart people out there who know much more about blogging than I do. So let’s just roll with it for a while.