In the Night Cafe

Tom is estranged from his wife and children when he meets Joanna, a rootless young woman searching for love, in the Greenwich Village of the early 1960s

Literature & Fiction

Johnson, Joyce

Contemporary

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

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Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

McGraw-Hill Education / Medical

Named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award “Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a riveting portrait of an era . . . Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and moving insight.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when “good” women didn’t leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be minor characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were. As a teenager, Johnson stole down to Greenwich Village to sing folksongs in Washington Square. She was 21 and had started her first novel when Allen Ginsberg introduced her to Jack Kerouac; nine months later she was with Kerouac when the publication of On the Road made him famous overnight. Joyce had longed to go on the road with him; instead she got a front seat at a cultural revolution under attack from all sides; made new friends like Hettie and LeRoi Jones, and found herself fighting to keep the shy, charismatic, tormented Kerouac from destroying himself. It was a woman’s adventure and a fast education in life. What Johnson and other Beat Generation women would discover were the risks, the heartache and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

History

Penguin Publishing Group

On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender side of Kerouac. It also shares the vivid and unusual perspective of what it meant to be young, Beat, and a woman in the Cold War fifties. Reflecting on those tumultuous years, Johnson seamlessly interweaves letters and commentary, bringing to life her love affair with one of American letters' most fascinating and enigmatic figures.

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

Biographies & Memoirs

KEROUAC,JACK

Arts & Literature

From the author of Minor Characters, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award – an “intricate and compelling” (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir that chronicles her childhood and her two ill-fated marriages Joyce Johnson’s classic memoir of growing up female in the 1950s, Minor Characters, was one of the initiators of an important new genre: the personal story of a minor player on history’s stage. In Missing Men, a memoir that tells her mother’s story as well as her own, Johnson constructs an equally unique self-portrait as she examines, from a woman’s perspective, the far-reaching reverberations of fatherlessness. Telling a story that has "shaped itself around absences," Missing Men presents us with the arc and flavor of a unique New York life—from the author’s adventures as a Broadway stage child to her fateful encounters with the two fatherless artists she marries. Joyce Johnson’s voice has never been more compelling.

Missing Men: A Memoir

Penguin??Books

A groundbreaking new biography of Jack Kerouac from the author of the award-winning memoir Minor Characters Joyce Johnson brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend in this compelling new book. Tracking Kerouac’s development from his boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, through his fateful encounters with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and John Clellon Holmes to his periods of solitude and the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in his composition of On the Road followed by Visions of Cody, Johnson shows how his French Canadian background drove him to forge a voice that could contain his dualities and informed his unique outsider’s vision of America. This revelatory portrait deepens our understanding of a man whose life and work hold an enduring place in both popular culture and literary history.

The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Johnson's Beat memoir is "the safe-deposit box that contains the last, precious scrolls of the New York '50s" ( The Washington Post ).\nJack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts are now beginning to be recognized for their own roles in forging the Beat movement and for their daring attempts to live as freely as did the men in their circle a decade before Women's Liberation.\nTwenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, San Francisco, and Mexico City, Johnson roamed the streets of the East Village, where she found herself in the midst of the cultural revolution the Beats had created. Minor Characters portrays the turbulent years of her relationship with Kerouac with extraordinary wit and love and a cool, critical eye, introducing the reader to a lesser known but purely original American her own.\n"Rich and beautifully written, full of vivid portraits and evocations." -- San Francisco Chronicle\n"--A first-rate memoir, very beautiful, very sad." --E. L. Doctorow\n"Realistic rather than flamboyant, [Johnson] succeeds in portraying the Beats not as oddities or celebrities but as individuals." -- The New Yorker

Minor Characters

Pan Books, Ltd.

National Book Critics Circle Award-winner,  Minor Characters has deservedly become  known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the  1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one  woman's coming of age amidst the angels and poets of  the Beat Generation. The friend and lover of Jack  Kerouac during the two years surrounding the  publication of On The Road --the book  that made him suddenly and forever famous--Johnson  describes with penetrating insight the circle of  rebellious visionaries of which she became a part:  Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones,  Gregory Corso. But more than just chronicling the drama  of her life with a diffident and often drunken  Kerouac, Johnson describes the roles that she and the  other women in her circle played as companions and  acolytes to their male muses, women who set aside  their own needs and ambitions, for a time, even as  they searched to find their own voices and shape  their own lives. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt  wrote in The New York Times,  Johnson "has brought to life what history may  ultimately judge to have been minor characters, but who  were to her own generation major enough to shape  its consciousness." Anchor Books is proud to  be reissuing Minor Characters  with a new introduction by the author that helps to  place the Beat Generation in the context of the  1990s."Realistic rather than  flamboyant, Johnson succeeds in portraying the  Beats not as oddities or celebrities but as  individuals. In wry retrospect, she recognizes the folly  of young women rebelling against their well-meaning  parents only to become subservient to indifferent  men."--The New Yorker  "Johnson writes of Dostoevskian  evenings, of Kerouac's disastrous confrontation  with fame...of the major Beat voices and the minor  characters, their women. It's a terrific book,  rich and beautifully written, full of vivid portraits  and evocations."--San Francisco  Chronicle

Historical

Anchor

The award-winning author of Minor Characters writes with delicious transparency about a love that cannot be harnessed and a woman who refuses to be deceivedIn the great wave of husband-leaving ushered in by the Sexual Revolution, Molly Held  frees herself from her cold, flagrantly unfaithful husband after their final quarrel turns violent. With her five-year-old son, she lights out for an Upper West Side apartment and the new life she hopes to find with Conrad Schwartzberg—the charismatic radical lawyer who has recently become her lover. Having escaped from a desert, she lands in a swamp. While Conrad radiates positive energy, he is unable to tell Molly—or anyone who loves him—the truth. No longer the wronged wife, Molly now finds herself the Other Woman. She is sharing Conrad with Roberta, another refugee from marriage—with Conrad’s movements between the two of them disguised by his suspiciously frequent out-of-town engagements.  Roberta either knows nothing or prefers to look the other way, but Molly’s maddening capacity for double vision takes over her mind. What saves her from herself is her well-developed sense of irony, which never fails her—or the reader.

Bad connections

Genre Fiction

PUTNAM

An account of the death of Lisa Steinberg at the hands of her adoptive father examines the relationship between Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum and analyzes the shocking issue of family violence in America

What Lisa Knew

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Putnam Adult

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In the Night Cafe

Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

Missing Men: A Memoir

The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

Minor Characters

Minor Characters

Bad connections

What Lisa Knew