Article: Road Trips; On the 50th anniversary of "On the Road," a slew of books celebrates Jack Kerouac, his American classic and the scroll that began it all.

ON THE ROAD

The Original Scroll

By Jack Kerouac

Viking. 408 pp. $25.95

ROAD NOVELS 1957-1960

By Jack Kerouac

Library of America. 864 pp. $35

ON THE ROAD

By Jack Kerouac

Viking. 307 pp. $24.95

DESOLATE ANGEL

Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America

By Dennis McNally

Da Capo. 404 pp.

Paperback, $17.50

JACK KEROUAC'S

AMERICAN JOURNEY

The Real-Life Odyssey

of "On the Road"

By Paul Maher, Jr.

Thunder's Mouth

(forthcoming in October)

WHY KEROUAC MATTERS

The Lessons of

"On the Road"

By John Leland

Viking. 205 pp. $23.95 Few manuscripts have been so mythologized as the scroll, the legendary roll of paper fed into a manual typewriter to accommodate Jack Kerouac's torrential word flow, the ...

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