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LOOKING_FOR_JOAN_VOLLMER

                                     March 16, 2004

Joan Vollmer's name appears often                  
in all the various accounts of the   
oft told Beat Generation saga.       I don't want to          
                                     repeat too much of       
                                     that stuff...            
One of the things that's                                      
striking to me is that                   She's most famous for
everyone agrees about how                getting a bullet in  
*smart* she was:                         the head from William
well-read, intelligent,                  Burroughs.           
witty...                                                          
                                
   So what                                                    
   did she               
   say?                     
                             


A reading list, some places to search: 
 
author           title                      known alias 
 
Kerouac          On the Road (1957)         Jane Lee       ON_JANE                  

Kerouac          Subterraneans              Jane           SUBTERRA                

Kerouac          Town and the City (1950)   Mary Dennison  TOWNIE_MARY          

Kerouac          Vanity of Duluoz           June           JUNE_ORIENTATION 

Kerouac          Visions of Cody
 
Burroughs        Junky (aka Junkie)         "wife"         BURROWING
 
Burroughs        The Letters of William 
                 S. Burroughs: Volume I: 
                 1945-1959 (1994)
 
Holmes           Go (1952)                  ?              GO_ 
                                                                                     
Herbert Huncke   Guilty of Everything                                                      
 
Ted Morgan       Literary Outlaw                           LITOUT 
 
Carolyn Cassady  Off the Road             
                             
Neal Cassady     The First Third
                                
Neal Cassady     Neal Cassady                              NEAL_AND_JOAN
                 Collected Letters 
                 1944-1967 (2004)
 
Burroughs Jr.    


    
"The Subterraneans" has a mention that another of    
Joan Vollmer's lovers was Ed Stringham -- another        
queer, evidentally.                                   

There's supposedly another mention of Ed Stringham,  
under the name of "Ronald Macy" in 
Kerouac's "Book of Dreams". 

                                            
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