Talk:Visions of Cody

Illustration

The choice of book cover illustration is a curious one. It is not representative of the book in question. It shows the January 1960 edition "Excerpts from Visions of Cody" published by New Directions in a limited edition of 700 signed copies. This included only about one third of the total text, and the complete book was not published until 1973, by McGraw-Hill. I'd suggest that the cover of that edition would be a much more appropriate choice for use here.

See: http//www.beatbookcovers.com/kerouac-voc/

Pitoucat (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:18, 7 May 2009 (UTC).

Should be included

I will try to get to this later, but the following information should be included in the article:

In Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee’s Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, Jack’s Book (a work that deserves more attention than it gets), John Clellon Holmes describes Kerouac’s struggle to finish writing On The Road in Ozone Park: "This was about 1949. Then he became more and more hung up by his inability to write the damn thing. He couldn’t find the entry into it. And he wrote this whole thing which is Visions of Cody, Neal’s youth, he wrote that on pot. For a month he sat out there in Ozone Park, every night. He got high on pot and wrote that stuff." Holmes says that Kerouac would wait for his mother to go to bed, then he would stay up all night at his kitchen table and write.

https://www.dharmabeat.com/ozonepark.html Dudanotak (talk) 00:49, 17 April 2024 (UTC)