"You should always cook eggs slowly" was Joan's advice in the kitchen on 118th Street. Joan did everything slowly, Edie reflected; she spoke, walked, dressed and read slowly, as if savoring every moment. She read everything, every newspaper and magazine. She liked the cartoons of William Steig in The New Yorker, particularly the one of the dejected fellow saying, "My mother loved me but she died." Joan didn't get along with her mother, and felt that she had nothing in common with her parents' country-club existence. She had rebelled against her background by living the New York City bohemian life."
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Joan Vollmer
Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951), was the most prominent/important female member in the early Beat Generation. While a student at Barnard College (a private women's liberal arts college in the USA), she became roommates with Edie Parker (later married to Jack Kerouac). Their apartment became a gathering place for the Beats during the 1940s. In 1946, she began a relationship with William S. Burroughs, later becoming his wife.
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