"The two-page story, titled "The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing," was written shortly before the publication of Kerouac's 1957 masterpiece "On the Road." The story details, in Kerouac's typical ecstatic and spontaneous style, an evening of joy and yearning in Denver with Neal Cassady, LuAnne Henderson and Allen Ginsberg, using their alter egos Dean Moriarty, Marylou and Carlo Marx. The typed story is signed by Kerouac with a green fountain pen, something he was known to do at the time."
""A friend of mine tipped us off that there was an estate sale going on that day and they had seen some ephemera in the auction," Jerry Braunfield of online auction house Your Own Museum told SFGATE on Monday. "There were roughly 10 to 15 people attending, and we were serendipitously bidding against no one interested in the items. It happened by pure fate. It was an unexpected and fortunate opportunity.""
A two-page Kerouac story titled "The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing" was written shortly before the publication of On the Road. The story recounts an ecstatic, spontaneous evening in Denver featuring Neal Cassady, LuAnne Henderson and Allen Ginsberg, presented under their alter egos Dean Moriarty, Marylou and Carlo Marx. The typed manuscript bears Kerouac's signature in green fountain-pen ink. The manuscript spent many years among the belongings of Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano, who was shot dead in 1985. Whispers of the manuscript surfaced during a 2024 estate sale at Castellano's former mansion and the item was authenticated and sold quickly at auction.
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