Thoughts of hitting the road this weekend make me turn to the Jack Kerouac classic and I found this fitting quote in Scott Weiland’s review of John Leland’s Why Kerouac Matters: What matters about “On the Road” is the book’s raw energy yoked to its sense of promise in “all that raw land,” the shove it offers to get out of one’s own chair and see what lies over the horizon.
 

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