Jack Kerouac

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The Name of This Land is Hell: Mexico in Literature

By Rodger Jacobs

When the author of a sitcom-styled novel about Mexican heritage cannot resist mentioning the modern-day carnage, then it's fair to assume that the murders have become a significant part of the national identity. [23 October 2009]

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Little Murders: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

By Rodger Jacobs

This is not Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation but, rather, Hunter S. Thompson’s Generation of Swine, the urban home front during the waning days of World War II, gritty and unvarnished, and chillingly reflective of modern sociology. [20 March 2009]

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