Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

While entertaining as a every-once-in-awhile or read-in-the-bath book, I was mostly underwhelmed by the relationship between Johnson and Kerouac. As the book wore on and Elise Cohen was mentioned in passing — eventually stating that Cohen had committed suicide — I became more interested in Cohen than I ever was in Kerouac's publishing struggles and bad attitude or Johnson's attempts to quell Kerouac's unhappiness.