The autobiographical nature of all of this author's speed works prompted Truman Capote to quip "That's not writing, it's typing." He recounts Alvah Goldbook's first reading of
The autobiographical nature of all of this author's speed works prompted Truman Capote to quip "That's not writing, it's typing." He recounts Alvah Goldbook's first reading of his poem "Wail" before his narrator goes to live alone in the mountains as a firewatcher. Alvah Goldbook becomes Carlo Marx in another book, in which legal concerns prevented the author from mentioning Allen Ginsberg by name. For ten points, what author referred to himself as Ray Smith in The Dharma Bums and as Sal Paradise in On the Road?
The autobiographical nature of all of this author's speed works prompted Truman Capote to quip "That's not writing, it's typing."
Jack {Kerouac}