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From the Steve Allen show. Steve Allen was a brilliant comedian and one of the first television "talk show hosts." He does a wonderful job here with Kerouac who seems to be a surly interview. The performance of on the road here leads me to believe that it would have been an remarkable audiobook.


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Kerouac rarely appeared on television, and the few appearances he did make were typically brief. The deviation from the agreed-upon plan of reading from On the Road is often interpreted by counterculture literature enthusiasts as a sort of "f*** you" to the establishment by reading from the work Kerouac believed to be his best, rather than from the "inferior" On the Road that garnered far more mainstream popularity.