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Transcript: Profile: Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"
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- NPR Morning Edition
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- September 9, 2002
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Profile: Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
BOB EDWARDS, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards.
When the novel "On The Road" was published 45 years ago, it caused
a sensation. Jack Kerouac's style approximated jazz riffs. Its speed
and urgency, a rebuke to the button-down America of the 1950s. As
part of the series Present at the Creation, NPR's Renee Montagne has
this story.
RENEE MONTAGNE reporting:
Up until September of 1957, about the only thing Jack Kerouac had
to show for "On The Road" was a pile of rejection slips. ...