Transcript: Interview: James Sampas discusses a screenplay by Jack Kerouac

BOB EDWARDS
Morning Edition (NPR)
10-31-2003
Interview: James Sampas discusses a screenplay by Jack Kerouac

Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

A previously unknown screenplay version of Jack Kerouac's novel "Doctor Sax" has surfaced. James Sampas, Kerouac's nephew and associate manager of the Kerouac estate, discovered the manuscript. And he gathered a group of Kerouac admirers, including beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, to record a reading. Sampas then produced a CD version of "Dr. Sax and the Great World Snake."

(Soundbite of CD)

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