Its Jack Kerouacs birthday. 12 March 1922, Lowell, Mass - birthplace also of Bette Davis! Shedve been a freshman in high school the year he was born. Pure products of America going crazy! A while back (2008?), the (alas, beleaguered) main branch building of the NYPLibrary displayed the original manuscript scroll of *On the Road*, coinciding with the 50th anniversary publication of that original book, and I wrote about it for *Gulf Coast*, a swell journal from the University of Houstons MFA Creative Writing program, and I just posted the thing to the 3 AM guys invisible blog, and here it is: johnpweirjrblog.wordpress/
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:52:27 +0000
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