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“... together, and Edie died, in bed, next to him, for uncertain but drug-related reasons. She was 28. Jan Kerouac survived the dangerous Sixties to write a thin book – which, in the circumstances, is something. Baby Driver (the title comes from a Paul Simon song) shows how much of the mythology of ‘the road’, ‘the road movie’, ‘the road ...”

“... to imagine Hrabal feeding a roll of paper into his typewriter and going on until the end, the way Kerouac did with On the Road; he too was a writer of the 1940s and 1950s, a writer of intoxication and excess, who claimed to have cycled to Hamburg all along the Elbe from Nymburk, where his father managed the brewery. He was some kind of Beat, some kind of ...”