'Big Sur': Another Kerouac novel heads to the screen

Jack Kerouac was never shy about the movies. As Joyce Johnson notes on the website “Reality Sandwich”: “In his twenties, Kerouac sporadically supported himself by synopsizing scripts for film studios and tried his own hand at screenwriting. He wrote a Christmas tearjerker that he unsuccessfully tried to sell.”

By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic

January 9, 2013