Kerouac

Some random Googling to answer a pop culture trivia question at work led me to find that Francis Ford Coppola is filming Jack Kerouac‘s On the Road. I had two academic obsessions in college — Ludwig Wittgenstein and Kerouac, so I’m interested to see what Coppola does with the book. I also discovered that Kerouac’s On the Road manuscript is currently on tour. That very long piece of paper has an interesting story which has led more than one critic to label Kerouac a “mere typist.”