32045 Ann is a wonderful appreciative and yet critically minded thinker. She approaches K's method and writings with a scholarly, detailed approach but its only to make it all ring louder. The lecture leans heavily on Tim Hunt's Kerouac's Crooked Road. Enjoy! 0-10: Very tender introduction of Jack and his relevance to Ann and the milieu of dharma bums-era berkeley 9:40 tape Jack reading "now jazz...." 13ish: Ann finishes her biography which is nice to hear- an honest account of someone's relationship with writings and thinkings of beats 20ish: development of bibliographies and AC's writings 30ish: Why it's tough to study Kerouac 42: why Huck Finn and OTR are kin 49: opens it up to other responses thinking as if Keroauc mattered... Blank 2005-02-15 09:47:26 2005-02-15 09:47:26 5 Her biography of Jack Kerouac is excellent.I read it maybe twenty years ago. Jack's 'On the Road' is a classic,'Darma Bums'I think is his second best book.Read those two and then Charters's biography.His later books are not as good. Anne Charters Searchlight 2008-04-07 09:35:10 2008-04-07 09:35:10 5 2 5.00