Unpublished Jack Kerouac Play Discovered

An unpublished, three-act play by Jack Kerouac, based on his drunken Beat adventures, has been discovered recently and will be excerpted next month in BestLife magazine.

"The part we're excerpting will show Kerouac and Neal Cassady at a racetrack, and they're partying and gambling," Best Life editor-in-chief Stephen Perrine said Monday. "But they're also talking about reincarnation and other obsessions. It's more an exploration of their inner lives."

The entire play will be published this fall by Thunder's Mouth Press.

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