kerouac’s ghost

John M Donovan is a novelist, stand-up comic, copywriter, actor, composer, and all-around decent fellow.

A 1982 graduate of Wabash College, Donovan majored in English and minored in not taking things seriously enough. At the time, he was concentrating mostly on short stories, but in the summer of 1983, he completed the first draft of his first novel, Bob Smith, which now resides in his mental stack of books to rewrite someday. ‘It’s got interdimensional travel to a land where Herman Melville is obsessed with the psychedelic music of the 1960s,’ notes Dono. ‘I’m hoping this market doesn’t get saturated before I have a chance to publish that one.’Read More →