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Cassady Neal
The First Third
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Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Ken Kesey, to name just some of his cohorts on the beatnik path, Cassady lived life to the fullest, ready for inspiration at any turn. Before he died in Mexico in 1968, just four days shy of his forty-second birthday, Cassady had written the jacket blurb for this book: “Seldom has there been a story of a man so balled up. No doubt many readers will not believe the veracity of the author, but I assure these doubting Thomases that every incident, as such, is true." As Ferlingetti writes in his editor’s note, Cassady was “an early prototype of the urban cowboy who a hundred years ago might have been an outlaw on the range.” Here are his autobiographical writings, the rambling American saga of a truly free individual.
Collected Letters, 1944-1967
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Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassady’s life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero
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This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His naturalistic, conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and uncredited from Cassady’s letters for significant episodes in On the Road. Drawing on a wealth of new research and with full cooperation from central figures in his lifeincluding Carolyn Cassady and Ken Keseythis account captures Cassady’s unique blend of inspired lunacy and deep spirituality.
The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady
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Criminal ... Saint ... Lunatic ... Genius ... Muse .... Once described by Jack Kerouac as "more like Dostoevsky than anyone I know," Neal Cassady lived what others could only write about. Serving as the model for Kerouac's frenetic hero, the hip, Noble Savage Dean Moriarty in On the Road, and "N.C., the secret hero" of Allen Ginsberg's provocative poem "Howl," Cassady was a genius of life lived on the edge of the abyss. Now, William Plummer strips away the mystery surrounding this enigmatic figure. Plummer brings Cassady to life: his coming of age in a Denver flophouse, his hustling across America, the car thefts that landed him in jail, his meeting with Kerouac and their mad-cap cross-country adventures, his experiments with sex and drugs, his second marriage to Carolyn Cassady, his teaming with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on an epochal acid trip, and finally his bizarre death. Black-and-white photographs add to this engrossing biography of an outrageous but fascinating life.
Off the Road
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Off the Road tells the intimate story of the legendary Neal Cassady and his remarkable friendships with Jack Kerouac (who immortalized Cassady as Dean Moriarty in On the Road) and Allen Ginsberg.
Written by the woman who loved them all--as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg--this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac's On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen-that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder and ultimately more destructive lifestyle.
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Jack Kerouac's Fantasy Baseball Dorkdom - Deadspin
Deadspin, NY - Feb 10, 3139
Jack Kerouac's Fantasy Baseball DorkdomJack Kerouac led a busy life boozing, writing, bee-bopping, and banging Neal Cassady's wife, but he was also quite the nerdsworth when it came to fantasy baseball. Heavy emphasis on the "fantasy." Based on the new book "Kerouac At Bat: Fantasy Baseball
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UIL tennis reults - Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene Reporter-News, TX - May 12, 2009
UIL tennis reultsMarcus Johansson, Veribest, 7-5, 6-2; Travis Cassady, Frost def. Johnathon Smith, Miami, 3-6, 6-0, 6-0; Matt Banner, Mason def. Brady Ramsey, Turkey Valley, 6-4, 6-4; Taylor Williams, Gruver def. Logan Mynar, Kopperl, 6-2, 7-5 Semifinals: Max Wilson,
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Go by John Clellon Holmes
Examiner.com - May 13, 2009
"Go" gives a more balanced portrayal of how that scene felt from the inside than Kerouac's book--for instance, in "Go", Hart Kennedy (Neal Cassady) gets slammed on his whole sexism trip by his ex-wife, and Pasternak (Kerouac) gets tagged for his
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Patios: 10 of our favorites - Westword
Westword, CO - May 23, 2009
Patios: 10 of our favoritesIt has a long history of fans to prove it, including Neal Cassady (there's a letter from him in the back, written when he had a tab open at what was then called Paul's Place). While the inside rooms are dark and casual and comfortable, the patio out
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Is Tim Tebow the Greatest College Football Player of All-Time? - Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report, CA - May 23, 2009
Bleacher ReportIs Tim Tebow the Greatest College Football Player of All-Time?There have only been three players (Howard Cassady, Billy Cannon & Archie Griffin) to have been honored with the Sporting News 'Player of the Year' twice. There have only been two players (Tim Tebow and John Lattner) to have won the Maxwell Award twice
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