Jack Kerouac Awareness Month
We’ve officialy entered the Jack Kerouac Awareness Month as it’s been named today by a nytimes reviewer. It’s the 50th anniversary of the publication of “On The Road”, released the first time on Sept 5th, 1957; a new edition of Kerouac’s most famous book will be published to commemorate the anniversary on August 16th : “On The Road: The Original Scroll”, a must have for every Kerouac die-hard readers (including myself, of course). Alongside this new edition, a couple of other books are going to be released, Jack Leland’s “Why Kerouac Matters” and another memoir, Kerouac’s first wife Edie Kerouac-Parker “You’ll be Ok: My Life With Jack Kerouac”, both out on August 16th, too. I pre-ordered the first two, but honestly I don’t need another memoir, even if it’s from Kerouac’s wife.
In the meanwhile a nice article from The Guardian:
America’s First King of The Road
