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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Jul 30

C.S. Lewis on God and Good Vs. Evil

British writer C.S. Lewis couldn’t fathom how a just God presided over a world that was so cruel…

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Jan 13

Jack Kerouac School of Poetry

On June 13, 1975, Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche visited Naropa University in…

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Jun 8

Virginia Woolf’s Difficult Life

Virginia Woolf was born into a life of high society and privilege. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen…

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Dec 2, 2020

Jack Kerouac’s Literary Road Trip

Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac was a novelist and poet who became the face of the Beat Generation. Born…

Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Apr 8

The Haunting Journey of William Peter Blatty

When William Peter Blatty was a high school student at Brooklyn Prep, one of his…

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Jul 11, 2022

Jack Kerouac’s Final Years

In 1967, poets Aram Saroyan and Ted Berrigan traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida for The Paris Review to…

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Feb 21

Why Did William Burroughs Shoot His Wife?

William Burroughs is known for three things. He was a junkie, he wrote Naked Lunch and…

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Feb 13

More Better Writing Advice

With so many people offering writing advice at Medium, I thought I’d take a crack at it.

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Oct 6, 2022

Why Do People Hate On the Road?

I’ve come across a slew of Medium writers who despise Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road. Kerouac does not…

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Loren Kantor in WritingAndTyping

Jul 5, 2022

All Modern Literature comes from Huckleberry Finn

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