Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years - The Guardian

The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men

In July 1995, when I was 25 years old and working as a reporter on a local newspaper in the north of England, I made my first trip to America, by inveigling my way on to a junket for business journal… [+4195 chars]

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