Like everyone else today, I feel obligated to note that 9/5/07 marks the 50th anniversary of the original publication of Jack Kerouac's controversial On the Road. Much loved and much despised, the wanderer's breakthrough novel, typed on a near-continuous role of typesheet while Kerouac was agitated on benzedrine, continues to split the literary community today.
I myself choose to celebrate this milestone.
Slate: You Don't Know Jack
More Intelligent Life: On the Road at 50
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" -JK, On the Road
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