>>24695844
Remember this masterpiece?

>>24660270
I read his most famous book and liked it. I haven't delved any deeper though.
I watched a documentary about him Tubi a month or two ago and it was pretty cool.
I like him more as a man and what he represents than as a writer. He was a free spirit and libertine and a total non-conformist. We need more people like that these days.

>>24638895
Unironically people on this very board have lived through lives like yours and made art out of it.
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>>24604713
No, we're into "lo-fi prose" now, it's a hot new literary movement started by the Australians. Check it out.

>>24536594
We all know who the real great Australian writer is anon

>>24522736
They had merit and they still have some value.
Their main contribution to literature was freeing things up. The idea that you can hitch hike back and forth across America and that's valid material for a novel was new. The idea that being a junkie and writing about it was valid was new. Because of the beats we are able to write about anything, they dethroned the dusty old men of the academy.

>>24504847
Honestly, i think the only i will ever be able to quit my day job is to get a successful screen adaptation of one of my stories.

>>24494414
We're all going to make it anon