![]() ![]() “Once inside, as it became evident that we actually were in pursuit of a serious purpose, Mrs. Kerouac agreed to let us in for twenty minutes, on the condition that there be no drinking. ![]() All seemed lost, but I kept talking in what I hoped was a civilized, reasonable, calming, and friendly tone of voice, and soon Mrs. “Jack and I began talking simultaneously, saying ‘ Paris Review!’ ‘Interview!’ etc.,” Berrigan recalls, “while Duncan and Aram began to slink back toward the car. Kerouac welcomed the poets, but before he could show them in, his wife, a very determined woman, seized him from behind and told the group to leave at once. Kerouac answered his ring Berrigan quickly told him his name and the visit’s purpose. Two friends, poets Aram Saroyan and Duncan McNaughton, accompanied him. ![]() When he felt the time had come for their meeting to take place, he simply showed up at the Kerouacs’s house. Ted Berrigan had contacted Kerouac some months earlier and had persuaded him to do the interview. Interviewed by Ted Berrigan Issue 43, Summer 1968 ![]()
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