"And yet that's precisely the circumstances under which a previously-unpublished Jack Keroac short story was recently discovered. The story, titled "The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing," shares characters with Kerouac's best-known book, the novel . As Air Mail's David Barnett recounts, the story was discovered among the possessions of the late crime boss Paul Castellano, who was murdered while en route to a steakhouse in 1985."
"Barnett notes that a significant mystery remains: how Castellano wound up with the story in the first place. Air Mail reports that Your Own Museum purchased the story from Castellano's heirs; a listing for it on the company's website lists a retail price of $8,500. "This piece originates from the collection of a noted San Francisco-based poet and friend of the Ferlinghetti circle, who received it directly from the author," the listing states."
Claude McKay's novel Amiable With Big Teeth was written in 1941 but published more than seventy years later after its manuscript was found at Columbia University in 2009. A previously-unpublished Jack Kerouac short story titled "The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing" shares characters with Kerouac's best-known novel and was discovered among possessions of late crime boss Paul Castellano, who was murdered in 1985. Your Own Museum purchased the story from Castellano's heirs with a listed retail price of $8,500; the museum's listing claims the piece came from a San Francisco-based poet and friend of the Ferlinghetti circle who received it directly from Kerouac. Castellano's Staten Island mansion briefly listed for $18 million. A new edition of Baby Driver by Jan Kerouac is scheduled for publication on November 11, 2025.
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