Archive for August, 2007

On the Road, by John Kerouac

Kerouac’s own “appealing commercial cover” sketch for On the Road identified him as John, not Jack. (Not only did he write and draw, he sang.)

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The Groucho letters

A new edition of Groucho Marx’s collected letters — to E.B. White and T.S. Eliot, among others — marks 30 years since his death.

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