Category Archives: Eaten manuscripts

On The Road, with dog

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

On 22 April 1951, Jack Kerouac finished typing the first draft of On the Road, the novel that would eventually be published in 1957 and distil the generation that Kerouac himself had already defined as “beat”. On The Road is … Continue reading →

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I’ll eat my words

Posted on June 14, 2010 by

In the annals of lost manuscripts, possibly far too few have been lost to posterity through devourment. (Some say the world might be a better place if authors were more often compelled to perform this operation literally, rather than leaving … Continue reading →

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