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Jack Kerouac on The Steve Allen Show

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A clip from the 1985 documentary "Kerouac, the Movie." Jack Kerouac interviewed by Steve Allen in 1959.

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  • "Anyway, I wrote the book cause we're all gonna die."

  • Literature and music together are so important for writers. Jack Kerouac...Jazz, Hunter S Thompson....Rock. What is next i wonder?

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  • supposedly, Jack is holding On the Road as he reads but he was actually reading the intro to Visions of Cody. by memory?. Im jealous how Kerouac can write without stopping or sorting his thoughts. the ability to pour it out like a machine.

  • damn closing my eyes and listening to him reading almost brings me to tears..

  • @sylvonlama are you serious, Steve's laying some smooth lines, goes great with the reading, creates atmosphere.

  • @goodvibesallround Twilight and Lady Gaga so it seems.

  • @catastrpoheballet101 Try to get a hold of the 2002 Penguin Classics edition and read Ann Charters' introduction. She goes into great detail and elaborates on Kerouac's painstaking attempt to perfect the novel. People disregard Kerouac's total time and effort put into making the novel and I'm sure his simple "3 weeks" answer was to save himself the hassle of repeating himself time and again.

  • @nervsykins haha

  • One of my favourite writers. Thanks for this clip.

  • @aebelmonter If so these are sad days for music.

  • @goodvibesallround some hipster wanabe dude with lady gaga

  • Catastrophe ballet......said the puddle to the ocean!

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