Jack Kerouac was more than the word-slinging reactionary alcoholic writer portrayed by the popular media. He was a very complex man with a multitude of influences, spiritually and literary, at a time when the world was recovering from WWII. Until relatively recently his personal notebooks have not been accessible to biographers and scholars, but now that they are, a whole new depth of portraiture is possible.
Paul Maher Jr is a seasoned Kerouac researcher who now publishes an indepth blog entitled
Sketches of Kerouac, presenting lots of interesting material, most of it extracted from the notebooks.
Take a few hours off and rummage through this lot:
http://acrossanunderwood.wordpress.com/
And. just for your interest, here's the first edition cover of
On The Road:
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