Transcript: Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road' Again

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
07-05-2007
Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road' Again

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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.

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This September will mark 50 years since Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" hit bookshelves. His it's unusual style stirred controversy and admiration at the time, and the book continues to sell a hundred thousand copies a year in the U.S. and Canada alone. Legend has it that Kerouac wrote "On the Road" in three weeks, typing it almost nonstop on the 120-foot-long roll of paper.

But as Andrea Shea, from member ...

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