of what exactly it is I'm up to this summer, I feel it is essential to share with you some of my summer reading. I absolutely love the summer for reading. Great weather, new materials, and zero academic texts mean many a summer-time reading sesh. My first choice this summer was Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." A great read for a self-induced summer of vagabond status. I was introduced to Kerouac by my friend Emily in high school. From that young of an age, she had a great appreciation for beat culture and she was well-read in the great beat literature. I think I asked to borrow "On the Road" at the end of senior year and it had been acquiring dust until this summer. I'm both happy and sad to report that the book is no longer with me; I lost it at Spider House in Austin, a hippie haven where I'm sure it will be put to good literary use.
Just saw this "review" on the NYTimes website, so I thought I should share it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/books/review/Sante2-t-1.html?8bu&emc=bu
Has some good trivia on how Kerouac produced the first draft of his great narrative. Also be sure to take a look at the "foreign versions" slide show of the translated novel's foreign covers - very interesting social commentary on perception of 1950's beat America.
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