2: ANN CHARTERS, the biographer of beat writer Jack Kerouac. She has just edited two new collections of Kerouac's writings: The Portable Jack Kerouac, and Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters (both published by Viking). She reads from some of Kerouac's letters, and discusses how he translated his life into his writing. CHARTERS teaches at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.
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