With the addition of another Paperwhite (thanks, Nik!), we have become a two-Kindle household. One of my projects is to re-read some stuff that was important to me many years ago, along with some classics or other material from those authors. The first was the 50s work by Jack Kerouac: On The Road. Almost no sooner than I had completed the thing this past weekend, today the New York Times publishes a remembrance entitled, “Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco“, a place that figured in Kerouac’s history, and that of other members of the “Beat Generation”.
And in case you’re curious, I think I enjoyed On The Road more this time than upon my first acquaintance back around 1959. And certainly my appreciation of Kerouac’s writing has increased.
And as a further postscript: Now I’m taking on works of recently-deceased (2018) Philip Roth. Yes, I did read Portnoy’s Complaint in 1969, but I’m on a waiting list for it, so I’m reading Roth’s 2004 piece of historical fiction, The Plot Against America, in the meantime. And there are many other Roth books that I may have a go with.
