I really wanted to see Kerouac’s scroll when it was on tour a year or three ago but never had the time.

Having read a few books in both their original (unedited) and cut versions (Stranger in a Strange Land comes to mind) it will be very interesting to see what he had to say.

It’s literary legend, how Jack Kerouac wrote his breakthrough novel “On the Road” in a three-week frenzy of creativity in spring 1951, typing the story without paragraphs or page breaks onto a 119-foot scroll of nearly translucent paper.

In fact, the Lowell native revised the book many times before it was published six years later, and while the scroll came to symbolize the spontaneity of the Beat Generation, the early, unedited version of the novel never reached the public.

read the whole story…

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