Also, I now want to reread On the Road.
All you'll find is homophobia there. He kept it pretty deep in the closet. But it's a regular part of his letters. He famously had a hotel fling with Gore Vidal.
Vidal's come on line? "C'mon, Jack. Do it for literary history."
Queer Beats
Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex traces, for the first time, the queer pulse that throbs throughout the Beats’ writings—from William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch and Allen Ginsberg’s wistful, boy-loving sex poems to Jack Kerouac’s hero-worship of Neal Cassady—and Kerouac’s denial of having sex with men, despite erotic encounters with Ginsberg and Gore Vidal: "Posterity will laugh at me if it thinks I was queer."
I'd love to know if any hints of Hughes's bisexuality made it into the letters Plath's mother destroyed.
Ple, I'm not turning up a reference to Hughes' sexuality online. Was it in his letters or a bio?
Langston (sexy writer #5), not Ted. I failed to disambiguate the Hughes.
I just bought the new book by Audrey Niffenegger (author of Time Traveler's Wife). Definitely looking forward to reading it sometime before Halloween--fitting, since it is a ghost story.
Apparently there are a few Buffy references in Martin Millar's Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me. TCG is reading it right now, and he keeps mentioning them to me.
sj thanks, I'm trying to figure out if I want to finish the book but it's pretty short.
The main thing I'm dealing with is
the whole woo is me I am cursed and caused my mother's death. I am death and blah blah -- my reaction has been Jsut get therapy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Askye, that part dies down eventually.
