Great choice for a name matty. There was a large population of quebecers in lowell mass where jack grew up, I think his ancestors migrated from breton to canada. I just went on a bar crawl of a lot of famous writers bar haunts, sort of like those ghost tours you take in Charleston or new orleans looking at old plantations and pirate lore. I had one of hemingways favorites the mojito the other night, damn good drink. going to try that gin raymond chandler tried
You should plan a trip to dsan fran and new york and take in some of the beat haunts, bbc did a great piece last year on keroaucs travels.alot of those jaxzz bars and old haunts are still around
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20120913-jack-kerouacs-us-road-trip/3
vesuvio cafe san fran
The piece mentions white horse tavern in nyc where dylan thomas and hunter t. drank, village vanguard, beat and jazz places in chicago new orleans, neal cassadys hometown of denver, larimer street now the lodo section of denver, telegraph hill and north beach in san fran.
that is great hearing jack speak french, one of the better docs on the beats out there
