Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 5
1957 " On the Road " by Jack Kerouac "On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make "On the Road" an inspirational work of lasting importance. 1958 " Doctor Zhivago " novel by Boris Pasternak published in US The classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. 2023 The Fraud by Zadie Smith (UK) It is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case. 2023 Holly by Stephen King Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled e...