Article: VOA NEWS: ON THE ROAD - AGAIN - WITH JACK KEROUAC

The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Ted Landphair

Half a century ago, the so-called Beat Generation of sometimes drug-fogged writers and poets shocked the conformist sensibilities of postwar America. In On the Road, published 51 years ago this Friday, college dropout Jack Kerouac embellished seven years of spontaneous road trips with his colorful friends. Kerouac died at age 47 in 1969, his health destroyed by hard drinking. But now he is back in the public eye as Penguin Books republishes two of his novels and an analysis of his influential work.

In On the Road: The Original Scroll, four scholars describe On The Road's creation and present the text in its full and ...

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