Posted on July 30, 2006 by Meg

Bibliophiles and English majors know the story about Jack Kerouac writing On the Road in a few weeks, without paragraphs or any breaks. Even feeding a new sheet of paper into the typewriter interupted his creative flow, so he wrote on long scrolls of paper, and taped them together.

 Now Viking Penguin will publish this original version, which has a different first sentence, and a different ending and contains a sections that were censored from the version we’ve read.

Read more:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/07/27/kerouacs_road_will_be_unrolled/

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/28/unedited_on_the_road.html