Second Edition. The ‘Joan Anderson’ Letter is available on The Joan Anderson Letter to Jack Kerouac (1922-1969). The Joan Anderson Letter: The Holy Grail of the Beat Generation by Neal Cassady For my reading pleasure, my great friend Richard Marsh recently sent me his copy of Neal Cassady's The Joan Anderson Letter: The Holy Grail of the Beat Generation. Denver: 17 December 1950. Minor toning and browning to the pages, light wear and chipping to the edges from handling. That kinesis—the literary kinesis, if you will, made unforgettably clear in The Joan Anderson Letter—began when Jack Kerouac read Cassady’s rush of words and claimed it was more alive than any piece of writing he had ever seen.. The Holy Grail of Beat Literature - A must-have classic collectors item! Signed by Jami Cassady, Neal Cassady's daughter. The rambling 19-page epistle detailed Cassady’s sexual exploits with his love Joan Anderson and several other women. Jack Kerouac said he thought Neal Cassady belonged in the company of Tolstoy or Melville, after first reading this legendary piece of writing, The 'Joan Anderson Letter' often called the 'Holy Grail' of the Beats. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a rare sepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady. The Joan Anderson letter was a frantic, manic, torrent of words, with the typewriter barely keeping up with the flow of thoughts. Hardcover. In its effusive style, its freewheeling candor, its Proustian (yes, Proustian!) Typed letter of eighteen pages with autograph content and with autograph additions, deletions, and edits, by hand in pencil and ink. Eighteen pages, approximately 16,000 words. Jack Kerouac called Neal Cassady’s “Joan Anderson Letter” “the greatest piece of writing I ever saw.” Written in 1950, it became the inspiration for “On The Road.” One highlight of the letter was a colorful account of a wild afternoon in a Denver flophouse in December 1945. The Joan Anderson Letter : Neal Cassady : 9781913606329 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired his new literary style; referring to it as ‘the greatest piece of writing I ever saw’. This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar Professor A. Robert Lee. The Joan Anderson Letter is a book containing the letter written by Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack 'On the Road' Kerouac. In case you’re wondering why the letter is named for Joan Anderson, it’s because the tale of Cassady’s passionate but unhappy love affair with her is the launching pad for all the rest. "The Joan Anderson Letter", written by Cassady to Jack Kerouac (December, 1950): it was until 2014, thought to have been lost, though an excerpt had been published in a 1964 edition of John Bryan's magazine Notes from Underground. This is one way we socialize during the pandemic in lieu of sitting together and reading Kerouac aloud. This is what Jack Kerouac was looking for. On December 23, 1950, Neal Cassady cemented his place in history when he sent the Joan Anderson letter to Beat writer Jack Kerouac. Associated Press reported in November 24, 2014, that the entire letter had been found. 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