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Sunday, January 4, 2015

The Letter That Inspired On the Road

This is certainly very interesting and very awesome news! Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel, On the Road, was considered innovative for its stream-of-consciousness style and beat genre, but the stream-of-consciousness letter from Kerouac's friend, Neil Cassady, that inspired the book and is also known as the "Joan Anderson letter" was discovered after sixty-five years. CEO of the auction house that possesses the letter, Joe Maddalena's colleague called it "the greatest literary discovery of the twenty-first century." Pretty cool news.

1 comment:

  1. Very cool news. Auction house, hmm? Bet it sells for a lot.

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