Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave
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Jack Kerouac
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Opens Friday Oct 3, 2008 (5:30–7:30pm)
Oct 3, 2008 – Nov 30, 2008
Mondays–Fridays (noon–7pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–5pm)
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Jack Kerouac's On the Road — the landmark work of the Beat Generation — is a thrilling, chaotic, Benzedrine-soaked whirl of frantic jazz, aimless sex, and druggy poetry. But the story of how Kerouac wrote the autobiographical novel (or "typed" it, as Truman Capote once sneered) is almost as iconic as the work itself. Over the course of just three weeks in 1951, Kerouac fed taped-together sheets of paper through a typewriter and knocked off a 120-foot-long, single-spaced draft of the novel. Today, the original scroll — which contains Kerouac's penciled notes and the real-life names of the novel's eclectic characters (which were changed before publication) — takes up residence at Columbia College.
