Aram Saroyan on Kerouac

“John Kerouac was all set to go the whole route as a well-respected American author, and Jack lost him like a bore at a literary party, and went up on the roof to look at the stars and smoke grass with the bartender.” Aram Saroyan, Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation, NY: William Morrow and Co., 1979, p. 69.