On Teh Road has begun a new life, finding a temporary home with a friend who has yet to read the book. I'll find out from him if the medium is conducive to reading the prose, and if the wire hanger and string hold up over time. Hopefully it is as close to the original... Continue Reading →
Back on April 1st I wrote about my efforts to transcribe the book On The Road, specifically the 2007 version of the unedited first draft, all 125,00 words of it on to a 50 yard roll of trace paper via an electric typewriter. The typewriter is falling apart, but the scroll is finished. more to... Continue Reading →
I remember reading On the Road in college and not liking it very much. It wasn't bad, but not memorable either. A few years later I came across the Original Scroll version, published in 2007 to commemorate the book's 50th anniversary. Many essays have recounted the long process of how the book came to be published... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 