"The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing."--The New York Times Book Review
During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road--typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll. Representing the identifiable point at which his vision and narrative voice first came together in a sustained burst of creative energy, the scroll is the "uncut" version of Kerouac's masterpiece--rougher, wilder, and more sexually explicit than the edited work that appeared in 1957. On the Road: The Original Scroll is Kerouac's signature achievement--and one of the most significant, celebrated, and provocative documents in American literary history.
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The cover for this week’s Fiction Issue was inspired by Jack Kerouac’s classic book “On the Road,” and the magazine features four writers’ reflections on memorable road trips. http://nyer.cm/yCCDY8P https://t.co/NxEJnbccYm
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The list of well-known writers Mr. Lord represented is long. But his success began with an unknown named Jack Kerouac and his hard-to-sell novel “On the Road.” https://t.co/8PlmfZBESA