A century after the ‘On The Road’ author’s birth, Kerouac’s close friend and collaborator David Amram talks to Kevin E G Perry about their ‘stoned-out’ parties, his misunderstood Catholic faith and his work’s enduring relevance
In 1943, he enrolled in the navy reserves but got a psychological discharge after just eight days because, as Amram puts it, “he couldn’t handle that disciplinarian stuff”. After that, Kerouac set out to see America. He criss-crossed the country several times over the course of seven years, often hitch-hiking, and then, according to legend, wrote up his experiences in a Benzedrine-fuelled three-week blitz in April 1951, typing on a 120ft scroll of paper.
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