Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

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Lonesome Traveler

consists of either heavily autobiographical short stories or highly personalized journalism – such as “New York Scenes”, first published in

Holiday

in 1959, and “The Vanishing American Hobo”, also published by

Holiday

(writings reading somewhat like what would be later christened “factionalism” – quasi-journalism so much reworked and so based in personal experiences as to fictionalize the report). These short works were taken from writing almost spanning the whole of the nineteen-fifties: from an account of how Kerouac failed to get signed on as a member of Cru’s ship in 1951, entitled “Piers of the Homeless Night”; “Mexico Fellaheen”, about his early experiences in Mexico (both perhaps reworked “outtakes” from the sprawling expansion of

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Citation: Ellis, R. J.. "Lonesome Traveler". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 April 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3913, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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