![]() ![]() When he isn’t working, Peter types a stream of impressionistic short stories on a rented Underwood. His first stab at independence is in a small cockroach-infested apartment in Hartford, Connecticut, earning his keep as a grease monkey at a local filling station. Martin considers himself a poet and an inveterate hitchhiker. He is irresponsible and reckless (as was Kerouac deep in his cups), a Whitmanic loafer and lover. He, like Kerouac, is prone to daydreaming and hypersensitivity. ![]() Martin first appeared as one of three brothers in some penciled notes Kerouac made for a planned 1942 novel. In 1942, Kerouac wanted to tell the same story, focusing the blade of the narrative on the after-effects of World War II on an "average American youth in an average American town." For The Haunted Life, he recycled the Martin moniker and moved its time period backwards to presage the war, back when two of his boyhood friends still had their lives and a future ahead of them. ![]() On March 12, 2014, it was published on what would have been Jack Kerouac's 92nd birthday. He titled it The Haunted Life and it was never finished. ![]() It was written at the prompting of his two newest friends, the mischievous nihilist Lucien Carr, and the budding poet Allen Ginsberg. SEVENTY YEARS AGO, in May 1944, Jack Kerouac toiled over a novella-length work set in Lowell, Massachusetts. ![]()
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