Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, unedited and raw

Over at MetaFilter, I reported on the special unedited publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, due out next year:

Kerouac’s essential On The Road is celebrating its 50th year in publication next September. To commemorate, Viking Press plans to publish the raw, unedited “scroll version” that’s been touring around the country. The hardcover — due out sometime next year — contains “some sections that had been cut from the novel because of references to sex or drugs” along with real names of characters, and “a different first sentence than the published novel, as well as a more abrupt ending.”

Check out the thread and succeeding discussion here.