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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Joyce Johnson
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson. She was dating Jack Kerouac when On the Road hit the bestseller lists in 1957 (chronicled in her book, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir). It's the 50th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Road,' and the commemorations include . No fewer than seven memoirs by women married to or connected with the central men informed Rivera's script. Boston University's Raven See's talk is titled Gendered Spaces in a Borderless Generation and she discusses the careers of Joyce Johnson, author of the memoir Minor Characters, and the poet Diane DiPrima. By the way, I had Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters, in mind when titling this post. Joyce Johnson's own book, “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir,” a minor classic in its own right, continued the look at Jack's love life immediately following his relationship with Helen Weaver. Detailed info · Reader Reviews. To celebrate, Smithsonian magazine published a personal essay about Kerouac written by his friend Joyce Johnson, author of Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir. In 2001 a short story collection came out entitiled All Hail The New Puritans. Of the beat generation in their research, the filmmakers spoke to Joyce Johnson, Kerouac's girlfriend at the time that On the Road was published to become an overnight bestseller. Banking on the marketability of Kerouac's name or with personal axes to grind, wives Edie Parker and Joan Haverty wrote books. "Sad and funny, full of pathos and the lost dreams of youth, 'You'll Be Okay' will find it's way to the short list of exceptional books by women of the Beat Generation that includes Carolyn Cassady's 'Off the Road' and Joyce Johnson's 'Minor Characters. Google searches brought up little more than a name-check. Minor Characters (memoir) Naked Lunch On the Road Queer The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (memoir). A memoir, 'You'll Be Okay,' from Kerouac's first wife. It's about the mostly glossed-over women in the Beat movement. Not to mention memoirs, an oral history – the excellent “Jack's Book” (1978) — and wider surveys of the Beat Generation. The best and most evocative book, Johnson's “Minor Characters,” set the high bar for a history of the women of the Beat era. At least one salacious study posits Kerouac as a cad, pushing the women into misguided behavior.