Desolation Kerouac: Wrestling with Demons in ‘Desolation Peak’
Jack Kerouac’s posthumous Desolation Peak establishes that Kerouac was more than a road warrior out for kicks. Or some wayward beatnik.
Paul Maher, Jr.
Paul Maher Jr. is the author and editor of Drunken Dumbshow: Kerouac in the 60s; A Vast Glowing Empty Page: The Life and Work of Jack Kerouac; Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews & Encounters; and All Things Shining: An Oral History of the Films of Terrence Malick. He is currently in production on A Wonder Wild, a film based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau, to be executive-produced by Terrence Malick. See more of his work at officialpaulmaherjr.com.
On Making Sense of the World at Jack Kerouac’s Directive
Reading Jack Kerouac, I saw in living flesh all of the Cody Pomerays, Dean Moriartys, Sal Paradises, and Alvah Goldbooks in every sailor I bunked with, each and all from every corner of America, revealing all and true as only comrades can do in the cocoon of shared experience.