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“... sombre brick Archambault Funeral Home, where Gerard would soon be laid out.’ The letters, which Ann Charters has chosen with great care, suggest a shape to the early life that is not always easy to divine from the bumpy, formless rush of the autobiographical fiction. Kerouac was given to agonies, to desperate gropings after truth – and a writing ...”

“... at Boulder, Colorado, or Grand Forks, North Dakota. ‘Prisoners of the Press Conference’, as Ann Charters captions them. Explainers of what is gone, apologists for what never happened. Literary stocks busking to sustain their market value, justify the next complimentary, two-seat air ticket. Corso always piled into these interviews with generous ...”

“... public in on the action that they were now directly helping to finance.Eighty years on and several charters later, the bank had become a byword for solidity. People started using the phrase ‘as safe as the Bank of England’. In March 1783, the bank appointed three of its directors to form a Committee of Inspection, to reinforce the reputation of ‘the ...”