Happy Birthday to the King of the Beats!

Yes, I was male suburban cliché: Like thousands of other disaffected middle-class white kids before me (and many more after, I’m sure), I discovered Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in high school—I’m proud to say I still own the very same copy I picked up at a long-since shuttered Borders Books in McMurray, Penna. It [...]

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