Article: Jack Kerouac's Long and Winding Road Trip

The revolutionary 1957 travel memoir On the Road ignited a generation and flung open the floodgates of hip "otherness." At its core is a heartbreaking and oblique queer romance.

Jack Kerouac's famed coming-of-age travel noveland subtextual gay love story-On the Road turned 50 last year. The pioneering book traces the journeys the author took across America by bus and car both alone and with his best friend and inspiration, the bisexual hustler, con artist, and raconteur Neal Cassady.

Even at the time of the book's publication in 1957, the novel's stream-of-consciousness, balls-to-the-wall style and its focus on the socially marginalized (hobos, intellectuals, gay hustlers) gained the ...

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