Letter that inspired Kerouac found

Monday, November 24, 2014

LOS ANGELES -- It's been called the letter that launched a literary genre -- 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950.

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