All your friends seem larger than life when you’re young … But I believe that many of the people who made up our scene really did have the charisma and thirst for new experiences to make great protagonists in an epic novel.
Jack Kerouac built his legend on a lightly fictionalized (and beautifully written) portrayal of his friend Neal Cassady, with a supporting cast of other people in their circle.
If you were going to write the Great American Novel about someone from the San Diego scene, who would it be? And why?