“Kerouac dreams of America in the authentic rolling rhythms of a Whitman or a Thomas Wolfe, drunk with eagerness for life.”—John K. Hutchens

Matt Curcio

Dr. Sax

anyone about to read Kerouac should start here. Dr. Sax is the crystallization of Kerouac’s creative integrity and vision. Here, his style is unencumbered by the editorial “corrections” that helped make  On the Road  a best-seller, but compromised its thematic execution – and the imagination that produced the mythical Dr. Sax is the same that, in the guise of Sal Paradise, seeks redemption. Here, revealed in its purest realization, is the source of the loss and desperation that haunt  On the Road , and lead to the physical, emotional and creative breakdown in  Big Sur . As a portrayal of imagination and its inevitable, universal loss, it’s an inspirational heartbreak.

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