{"id":201,"date":"2019-10-10T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:44:31","slug":"carolyn-cassady","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/carolyn-cassady\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Cassady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carolyn Cassady<br><strong>Heart Beat: My Life with Jack and Neal<\/strong>, 1976<br>Creative Arts Book Co., Berkeley, California<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Carolyn Cassady<br> <strong>Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg<\/strong>, 1991 [1990]<br> Penguin Books, New York. Alan Kaufman Papers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Carolyn Cassady was wife of Neal Cassady, lover of Jack Kerouac, and rival of Allen Ginsberg for her husband\u2019s affections. She had a minor role in <em>On the Road <\/em>as the wife who stayed home. As a symbol of stability and family, she represented that which the protagonists desired on one level and avoided on the other. She was well educated and had charted a career as a film designer that was cut short. Although she loved both Cassady and Kerouac, she had little enthusiasm for the mythology of the Beat generation. After their deaths, Carolyn Cassady sought to tell her story\u2014and their story\u2014 from her perspective. Selections from her thousand-page manuscript were published as <em>Heart Beat<\/em> in 1976. A film with the same title was released in 1980 and featured Nick Nolte as Neal Cassady, Sissy Spacek as Carolyn Cassady, and John Heard as Jack Kerouac. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional material from her memoir was later published with the ironic title, <em>Off the Road<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Carolyn CassadyHeart Beat: My Life with Jack and Neal, 1976Creative Arts Book Co., Berkeley, California [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Carolyn Cassady Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, 1991 [1990] Penguin Books, New York. Alan Kaufman Papers Carolyn Cassady was wife of Neal Cassady, lover of Jack Kerouac, and rival of Allen Ginsberg for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-201","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}