Blog 4
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11709924
This article details how the book On The Road came to be. It has an almost mythical origin with a story that depicts Jack Kerouac going through a sort of writing frenzy that lasted three weeks and ended in On The Road. This is not the complete truth at all though. While the initial manmuscript may have been written in a mere day this does not change the fact that he spent years revising it. This is incosiquential really though because all authors spend a chunk of their time editing thier book. The amazing part is the struggles that Jack went through to publish his book. It was sent to lawyers who did even more nitpicking removing some of the more powerful lines and forcing Jack to change the names of the really people he had written about, for example Allen Ginsberg became Carlo Marx. Despite all this the book was published and has no risen to an almost holy position in the literary community.
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