Get ready to feel a new passion for life.
Get ready to notice things you’ve never noticed before…
Speak to people you’d usually pass in the street…
…and generally seek out a deeper connection to the world around you.
How come?
Because in this latest episode, not only are we talking all things Kerouac… but we’re doing so with the frankly inspiring David Keenan.
This is the “magic God stuff” as Jack has it. And it is nothing less than “magical,” as both David and I agree.
Indeed, welcome to The Library of Lazy Thinking Podcast, with me, your host, Glenn Fisher.
As you may well know by now, in each episode, I'm joined by a guest from the world of books and culture to talk about a specific book they'd like to put in the library.
There's no plan and no agenda, just two people lazily thinking about literature.
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In this episode, as I say, my very special guest is the brilliant David Keenan. We discuss his pick for the library, the 1973 novel Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac.
About David
David Keenan is the author of six critically acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Prize; For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize and was shortlisted for the Encore Award; The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, Xstabeth, which was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, Monument Maker, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year and Industry of Magic & Light. He is also the author of England's Hidden Reverse, a history of the UK's post-punk and Industrial music scenes. He has been writing about music since he was seventeen years old, most consistently for The Wire, and between 2004-2014 he co-ran the cult Glasgow record shop Volcanic Tongue.
About Jack
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Perhaps his most famous work is On the Road, which has gained cult status across generations.
Links to obscure (and not so obscure) things mentioned in this episode
Order Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac and David’s incredible book This is Memorial Device from my local independent bookshop in Sheffield here.
Listen to Jack Kerouac read from Visions of Cody here.
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About Glenn
Glenn Fisher is a writer—wait, Glenn Fisher is me. I’m the one writing this. Let’s drop the third-person act. My writing has been published in online literary journals Lunate, The Paris Bitter Hearts Pit, 3am Magazine, Dogmatika, and Litro Magazine. I write about books and interview other writers and artists here in The Library of Lazy Thinking. I live in Sheffield and work as a freelance copywriter. I have had a best-selling non-fiction book published on the subject called The Art of the Click. It was published by Harriman House and shortlisted for Business Book of the Year. It has been translated into Simplified Chinese and Korean. I also have a dog called Pablo. He is harder to translate. Indeed, most of my life revolves around trying to understand his often unreasonable demands. Meanwhile, I am currently working on my first novel.
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