Gerald Nicosia @ The Beatnik

Outstanding new material at the Beatnik (whollycommunion.blogspot.com) today: Gerald Nicosia, still the best Kerouac biographer, whose honesty and lack of ass-kissing corporate finesse (which you would've thought an asset in the Beat universe), has earned him the eternal contumely of just about everyone with an investment in the mouldering bodies of Jack and Allen, has kindly allowed me to reproduce the press conference speech he gave in June of this year after discovering that his name was being written out of Beat histories by the powers that, regrettably, be. Read it. It's explosive.