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“On the Road” honored with cover-to-cover reading

On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s novel about Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty (characters based on the author and his friend) and their trip across America, was published fifty years ago in 1957. It was actually written six years earlier in 1951 on a scroll. Amazing, isn’t it? Kerouac wrote the original novel in three weeks on ten scrolls each twelve feet long and taped together. The Kerouac scroll was auctioned off a few years ago for $2.2M.

To celebrate the novel’s 50th year in print, friends and fans of the author took turns reading the book cover-to-cover at Narupa University in Boulder, Colorado. The reading took 12 hours.

Kerouac scroll
A picture of the scroll taken from the University of Iowa website.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 at 12:13 PM and filed under Book News.
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