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You may remember, from when it was featured on Longform.org, Vanessa Veselka’s GQ essay “The Truck Stop Killer,” about her life as a teenage hitchhiker and her narrow escape from a man who might have been a serial killer.
...moreMaybe you can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can sure try. At 22 Words, a six-year-old tries to suss out the plots of classic novels by looking at their cover art.
Wuthering Heights is a bit tricky, but she gets On the Road more or less right!
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In 1957, shortly after the publication of his second novel, On The Road, Jack Kerouac wrote a letter to Marlon Brando, pleading with him to buy the movie rights to the book.
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Jack Kerouac looked like Jesus. In the ink sketch my dad did of him, Kerouac’s arms are outstretched to either side, his head in profile as though waiting for the lash.
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