They wrote it this week: Why he regretted nicking Marie Antoinette’s head
02 March 2020 - 08:00
By Robin Crouch
Image: Wikimedia Commons The young Jack Kerouac on the lookout for talent on a New York street corner.
This and other Extracts from diaries and letters written between March 2 and March 8 - including one iconoclastic Beat writer who has grown “sick and tired of being a subway-streetcorner romeo”.
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