Kerouac's `Road' will be unrolled
Original scroll set for publication
It's literary legend, how Jack Kerouac wrote his breakthrough novel ``On the Road" in a three-week frenzy of creativity in spring 1951, typing the story without paragraphs or page breaks onto a 119-foot scroll of nearly translucent paper. (Full article: 678 words)
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