Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation - Paperbackby Ann Charters (Author), Samuel Charters (Author) John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were in Holmes's words "Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac