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Yesterday's Clip Job (an excerpt every day from the Voice archives) featured a dispatch from a writer by the name of James Breslin who chronicled Jack Kerouac's visit to Brooklyn College in March of 1958. Curious as to whether this Breslin was the Pulitzer Prize-winner who later wrote under the byline Jimmy Breslin, I asked the Voice's Tom Robbins about it. And he put in a call to the man himself.

It's not the same Breslin. But, as you might have guessed, Jimmy had a little something to say about Jack:

"It is not me. I knew Kerouac he lived in Richmond Hill, on 134th, near 101st.... The Philadelphia Inquirer, gave him the whole roll of UPI [teletype] paper so he could just keep typing. I should've given him a fucking box of periods. Taught a whole generation how to write run-on sentences. A disgrace!"

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Why is it the news programs (paper media or TV media) will not report on why this government does not use our fuel reserves to help offset the cost of fuel? I don't know about you but everyone I talk to is having a hard time just trying to survive. What has to happen before government taps into our reserves so people can at least afford to continue to work, put food on the table and send our children to school. I see good people starting to do bad things just to make enough money to support their families.

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Posted by: Ernie Odom at April 10, 2008 2:37 PM

A nice little piece of fiction on Jack Kerouac from Tom Robbins and Jimmy Breslin? Jack's teletype paper came from Lucian Carr who worked at UPI. I last saw THE Jimmy Breslin at Jack's funeral in Lowell, MA.
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Posted by: John Sampas at April 11, 2008 5:06 PM

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