I hear there's a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road in the works. Not sure I'll go see it. I finally got around to reading the famous book about 20 years ago. I didn't get it.
However, maybe you did and even if you didn't you might be interested still in this short piece by Robert Dean Lurie. He makes a case for Kerouac' essential conservatism and, to me, it rings true.
A dear friend of the family is, like Kerouac, a French Canadian from Lowell, Massachusetts and her late husband grew up with him there, mostly playing baseball together. It seems Kerouac was a decent athlete too. When I first learned of this many years ago, I asked him about the famous Beat writer and I remember him smiling with a touch of sadness and saying something like, "He was a good guy, drank too much." Unfortunately, he passed away not long thereafter and I was never able to probe any further his relationship with him.
Anyway, if you're interested.
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