The San Francisco Public Library is going to display the manuscript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" this spring - at least a portion of it. This book has always been a sort of literary legend as it was written on a continuous 120 foot-long roll of paper fed through a typewriter in a three-week burst of energy. Of course, Truman Capote said of it that Kerouac hadn't written a novel but merely typed one. The library is going to unroll 36 feet of it for the exhibit.
I have always enjoyed "On the Road" though my favorite of Kerouac's is "The Dharma Bums."
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