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If you haven't seen the original scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" make plans to visit the Indianapolis Museum of Art soon. The ...

Jim Canary is the head of conservation at the Lilly Library, an often overlooked treasure trove of rare books and literary manuscripts. In 2001, the ...

Inspired by the letters of Neal Cassady and the surrealist's experiments in automatic writing, Jack Kerouac apparently took a vow to develop and practice "spontaneous ...

Of course, Jack Kerouac wrote "On the Road"---he lived those adventures and had the talent to get it down on paper. But who inspired "On ...

Local artist William Lawson is displaying a portion of his vintage portable typewriter collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art's Stout Reference Library. The typewriters, ...

One of the toughest things about newspaper writing is deciding what you leave out. Every reporter has things in his or her notebook we adore ...

Check out this essay by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. He went to Big Sur to get inspired and this is what resulted: ...

Two years ago, the Guggenheim Foundation bought Richard Prince's Second House in Upstate New York. This year, a survey exhibition of Prince's work, "Spiritual America" ...

First time I read Kerouac's On the Road, I didn't get it. I was so used to reading plotted novels, thrillers and mysteries, etc that ...